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CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS. 575 
prefers city shade trees and orchards to the bush ; arrives about 
May 8th, leaves about September: 20th. (A. B. Klugh.) Observed 
in abundance at Pembina, on the 4gth parallel, and again found at 
the opposite extremity of the line, the specimen captured in the 
Rocky Mountains, being probably the slight variety swaznsont ; 
at Pembina the warbling vireo was in full song and breeding in 
June; a nest found on the 11th of that month was empty; but in 
this latitude few of the small insectivorous birds appear to lay be- 
fore the third week in June. (Cozes.) Summer resident of wood- 
lands in Manitoba; common on the south slope of Riding Moun- 
tain and west side of Duck Mountain. (Zhompson-Seton.) First 
seen at Indian Head, Assa., June 6th, 1892, after this date it 
became common and commenced to breed; first arrivals at Medi- 
cine Hat, Assa., May 17th, 1894, evidently intending to breed ; 
seen along Old Wives’ Creek,Assa., in June, 1895; along St.Mary’s 
River and at Waterton Lake, in Alberta, in July, 1895. (Spread- 
borough.) 
MUSEUM SPECIMENS 
Eight; one purchased with the Holman collection in 1885; two 
taken at Ottawa in May, 1888, by. Prof. Macoun; one taken at 
Ottawa, May 25th, 1891, by Dr.F.A.Saunders; one taken at Indian 
Fead, Assa., June, 14th,..1892, one at Old Wiveés’’Creek,: Assay, , 
May 22nd, 1895, and two at Medicine Hat, Assa., May, 1894, all 
by Mr. W. Spreadborough. 
6270. Western Warbling Vireo. 
Vireo gilvus swainsont BAIRD. 1858. 
Common from Lesser Slave Lake to Peace River Landing, Lat. 
56° 15’ in June, 1903 ; first seen at Edmonton, Alta. May 8th,- 
1897, breed in the vicinity; observed from Edmonton to McLeod 
River in poplar woods in June, 1898; not rare in foothills from Cal- 
gary south to Crow’s Nest Pass; acommon species at Banff, Rocky 
Mountains, breeding in the trees in the valley; shot at Revelstoke, 
B.C., on May 6th, 1890, after which they became common, also at 
Deer Park and Robson late in June, 1890; observed several at 
Trail near the International Boundary, in 1902, not very com-: 
mon ; this species is rare at Kamloops, but not uncommon: at 
Agassiz, Port Heneyand Hastings, B.C.; common at Chilliwack 
B.C., in the spring of 1901, a few were also seen at McGuire’s 
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