CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS. 603 
of white pine on an island in Gull Lake, Frontenac Co., Ont.; at 
this date it contained three young birds, recently hatched; on the 
16th June I found another nest on an island in Sharbot Lake ; it 
was just like the first one I found close to the water and about 
seven feet from the ground; the nest is large for the bird, built 
of dead twigs of spruce and hemlock with some fibrous roots, and 
lined with grass, feathers, rootlets, &c., the feathers in each nest 
being a special feature; outside it somewhat resembles the nest of 
the purple finch. (Rev. C./. Young.) 
The first warbler to arrive in spring at Scotch Lake, N.B., com- 
ing about the first of May and staying mostly about young growth 
woods or bushy pastures; they are fairly common during migra- 
tion, and some seasons stay to breed; one nest was placed six 
feet up in a tamarac bush and contained four eggs. (WW. H. Moore.) 
Nests found around Ottawa in May and June, saddled on the 
middle of a branch six feet from the ground in a large fir tree or 
at the summit of a small cedar tree ten feet high; they are made 
of twigs and rootlets covered with spider webs ora little plant 
down and lined with feathers and hairs; insome the feathers hide 
the eggs, in others the hairs are over the feathers; nest 4x 2 and 2 
x 1°50. (Garneau.) On the 18th June, 1882,1 discovered, for the first 
time inmy experience, anest of the myrtle warbler; it was ina low, 
black ash timbered swamp, where there was an intermingling of 
othersoft woods and conifers,near where I had foundaa bay-breasted 
warbler the year before, and of whose nest I was again in search, 
when I espied in a low balsam, about four feet from the ground, a 
nestwith the mother bird seated upon it; at first sight this avifaunian 
cradle, in situation, material and construction, appeared like that 
of a chipping sparrow, but when the bird flushed off on my near 
approach, and from a position ona branch near by watched my 
movements, shifting uneasily and uttering a few ‘“chip”-like 
notes, I carefully noted her plumage and became certain of her 
identity as a female myrtle warbler. This nest contained four 
eggs, quite fresh though the bird had begun to incubate; the nest 
itself was composed of stalks of dried weeds, fibres of bark, root- 
lets and hair from the tails of horses and cattle; the next summer 
I saw anothercomplete nest of this bird, it contained no eggs; this 
was placed in the top of a small bushy blue-beech five or six feet 
high, and situated in a swampy piece of bush land. (WV. L. Kells.) 
A very abundant species last spring (1903); the 17th May last 
