500 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA. 
the ground, preferably under something—the bottom rail of a 
fence or a hole insome grassy bank. Young were just beginning 
to fly June 23rd and a week later nests with fresh eggs indicated 
a second laying. (Dwight.) Very common summer resident in 
New Brunswick. (Chamberlain.) An abundant summer resident 
at Scotch Lake, York Co., N.B. (W. H. Moore.) Very common 
in the Restigouche valley, N.B. (Brittain & Cox.) Breeds, but 
is irregularly distributed on the Magdalen Islands. (Bzshop.) Of 
general and uniform distribution on the shores and islands of the 
Gulf of St. Lawrence. (Bvewster.) Abundant in summer at Lake 
Mistassini, northern Quebec. (/. JZ. Macoun.) Taken at Beau- 
port; common summer resident in eastern Quebec. (Dionne.) An 
abundant summer resident at Montreal. Breeds in Mount Royal 
park. I have found their nests, with eggs, from May 17th to 
June tgth, and have observed them here from March 2gth to 
October 25th; and on one occasion I saw two here—Dec. 24th, 
1882. “(Winile.) 
A common summer and autumn migrant. A few remain to 
breed around Ottawa. (Ottawa Naturalist, Vol. V.) 1 notice 
that this bird is acommon spring and autumn migrant in eastern 
Ontario. Numbers of them arrive in the latter part of September 
and are met with commonly in clearings and stubble fields during 
October. In the spring they re-appear early in April and con- 
tinue through the month. A few breed inthe county of Renfrew, 
and I have met with the nest in June. I have not noticed that 
it breeds along the St. Lawrence, though I have watched for it in 
suitable localities. It breeds sparingly on the Magdalen Islands 
as well as at Pictou, Nova Scotia. (Rev. C. J. Young.) A common 
breeding summer resident in the Parry Sound and Muskoka dis- 
tricts; very fond of nesting near old bush roads. (/. H. Fleming.) 
A few remain around Toronto every winter. (/. Hughes-Samuel.) 
Abundant everywhere along the Parry Sound Railway within the 
Algonquin Park, Ont.; young ones were able to fly by June Ioth, 
1900 ; nests were found on the ground near logs and another 
beneath a tuft of grass on July 15th, 1900. (Spreadborough.) Lon- 
don seems to be nearly the southern limit of this species; here it 
is rare in summer, but at Bryanston, 15 miles northeast it is fairly 
common in the same class of woods; and in north Bruce it is 
quite common. There have been two or three seasons in the last 
twenty years when it has been noted regularly throughout the 
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