a CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS. 595 
1899. (J. Hughes-Samuel.) Common summer resident at Guelph, 
Ont.; arrives about May 4th, leaves about Aug. 18th. (4. B. Klugh.) 
Abundant summer resident, breeds in gardens very frequently at 
Penetanguishene, Ont.; I have seen four nests of this species 
in a garden of less than half an acre. (A. F. Young.) Rather 
common at Norway House, Oxford House, and York Factory. 
Specimens taken at these three points have a slightly darker 
crown than is usual in eastern examples, but are referable to the 
typical form. (4. A. Prebles.) York Factory, Hudson Bay. (Dr. 
R. Bell.) Also taken at Fort Churchill, Hudson Bay. (Clarke.) 
This abundant and universally diffused species was observed at 
various points along the 4oth parallel from Pembina tothe Rocky 
Mountains. (Coues.) A very abundant summer resident every- 
where in Manitoba, breeding throughout the whole province. 
( Thompson-Seton.) Common and breeding at Avenue, Man. (orman 
Criddle.) First seen at Indian Head, Assa.,May 27th,1892,soon after 
they became abundant and began to breed in great numbers; first 
seen at Medicine Hat, Assa., May 15th, 1894, commenced nesting 
by the 23rd, two nests finished by the 29th and laying commenced; 
common in all brushy parts of western Assinibota, especially at 
Crane Lake and Cypress Hills. Thisis a common species where- 
ever there is brush, and builds indiscriminately in the forks of 
a rose-bush or a willow or E/@agnus; numerous nests were taken 
at Wood Mountain and wherever there was brush across Assini- 
boia and Alberta to Waterton Lake at Chief Mountain in the 
summer of 1895; observed from the mouth of Lesser Slave River 
to Peace-River Landing, Lat. 56° 15’, in June, 1903; first seen at 
Edmonton, Alta., May 12th, 1897, June 14th two nests were taken 
in small willow trees, nest very compact, composed chiefly of 
willow down held together with horse-hair; abundant in willow 
thickets throughout the trip from Edmonton west to Atha- 
basca Pass, in June, 1898; common in the foothills south of 
Calgary ; quite common and breeding in large numbers at 
Banff, Rocky Mountains, in the summer of 1891; very common 
at Revelstoke and Robson, on the Columbia River, in June, 
1890; one nest was taken in the fork of a cottonwood, 40 feet 
from the ground on June 2Ist, 1890, containing four fresh eggs; a 
few were breeding at Trail, near the International Boundary, in 
June, 1902; occasional at Kamloops and Spence’s Bridge, B.C.; a 
few doubtful specimens at Victoria, Vancouver Island. (Spread- 
