CATALOGUE OF* CANADIAN BIRDS. 573 
626. Philadelphia Vireo, 
Vireo philadelphicus (Cass.) BaiRD. 1858. 
One individual obtained from Moose Factory, James Bay, June 
2nd, 1860, by Drexler. (fackard.) A raresummer visitor around 
Ottawa. (Ottawa Naturalist, Vol. V.) I have met with this bird 
two or three times. Once I found the nest close to Lansdowne 
station in Leeds Co., Ont. This was in June, 1896. It was built 
in a bush of Spervea salicifolia, was prehensile like the other vireo’s 
but not so neatly or closely constructed. It contained one vireo’s 
egg and two cowbird’s. The,egg is identical with, but smaller 
than that of the red-eyed. This nest was in a damp pasture field 
where there were swampy places overgrown with alders and 
Spirea. (Rev. C. J. Young.) A not uncommon bird in the Parry 
Sound district. I believe they breed as they are always paired 
by the middle of May. (/. 4. Fleming.) This bird so closely 
resembles others of its family that it is difficult to decide as to 
its relative abundance at Toronto. I seldom fail to see one or 
more specimens each season. (/. Hughes-Samuel.) A regular 
migrant, though never yet found to be common. Two or three 
are all that any one observer, will usually note in one migration. 
(W. E. Saunders.) Seen as a passing migrant at Guelph, Ont. 
(A. B. Klugh.) 
A peculiar song heard on Hill River, Keewatin, July 8th, was 
probably the song of this species, but I was unable to secure the 
bird. (&. A. Prebles.) Although only two specimens were taken 
it undoubtedly breeds about Pembina on the 4oth parallel, in the 
heavy timber of the river bottoms, but I was not so fortunate as 
to discover its nest, a circumstance the more to be regretted, 
since neither the nest nor eggs have yet come to light. (Cowes.) 
Summer resident of thickets in Manitoba; nest found on Duck 
Mountain. (Zhompson-Seton.) Not uncommon and breeding at 
Edmonton, Alta:, in May, 1897. “Not. observed’ in any other 
locality west of Manitoba. (Spreadborough.) 
BREEDING Notes.—On June gth, 1884, near Fort Pelly,on the 
upper Assiniboine, I founda vireo nesting ina small bluff of poplar 
and willow ; the chosen site was in the twigs of a willow some I0 
feet from the ground; the nest was the usual suspended cup formed 
of fine grass and strips of birch bark; on the ground immediately 
below it was another nest of precisely the same make and ma- 
