CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS. 589 
647. Tennessee Warbler. 
Helminthophila peregrina (Wits.) Ripew. 1882. 
Obtained by Drexler at Fort George, James Bay, in June and 
July, 1860. (Fackard.) Rather common at Stewiacke, but never 
seen at Halifax, N.S. (Dowas.) A rather common summer resident 
at St. John, N.B. (Chamberlain.) A rare summer resident at 
Scoten ake, York €Co., N.B. .(W.A. Moore.) Very care'in the 
* Restigouche valley, N.B. (Brittain & Cox.) Not rare at Lake 
Mistassini, Quebec. (/. JZ. Macoun.) The only specimen noticed 
was shot at Fox Bay, Anticosti, July 11th. (Avewster.) Not common 
summer resident around Quebec; taken at Beauport. (Dzonne.) A 
common but transient visitant at Montreal. Mr. Kuetzing has 
found this species here in May, and common for a week or two in 
swampy places, and I have shot a few in hedgerows in the fields at 
Hochelaga in May. (Wintle.) 
Rare migrant in the vicinity of Ottawa; one was shot on the 
bank of the Rideau, April gth, 1882, by Mr. G. R. White; another 
was shot May 16th, 1888. (Ottawa Naturalist, Vol. V.) On May 
18th, 1897, I took one of these warblers in a large alder swamp at 
Emsdale, Parry Sound, Ont., and saw several more in the same 
place on 22nd May. They continued common till the 26th, when 
I only saw one. (/. 1. Fleming.) I have usually heard this bird 
spoken of as rare, but sinc- I first had the pleasure of its personal 
acquaintance I have concluded that many observers have passed 
it over on account of its dull plumage, and in some cases it may 
have been passed as a Regulus, which, in coloration, it somewhat 
resembles. I believe the bird occurs with us regularly, at any rate 
in limited numbers; my note dated 22nd May, ‘1goo, reads :—A 
grand morning, warm and summer-like, a great many warblers in 
the willows ; magnolias very abundant, some of these being so 
particularly handsome as to give the place quite atropical effect; 
I came across an unusually large number of Tennessee warblers 
singing, or rather chipping merrily away in the early morning 
sunshine, two of which I secured; there were not less than 25 of 
this species in one small patch of willow:. (/ Hughes-Samuel.) 
Sometimes fairly common at London,Ont.,in migration. (IV. &. 
Saunders.) 
Upon my arrival at Pembina, the beginning of June, I at once 
perceived that the vernal migration of the present species past 
