616 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA. 
Islands, and fairly common at Anticosti as well as along the 
north shore of the St. Lawrence. (Bvewster.) Not rare at 
Lake Mistassini, Que. (/. MZ. Macoun.) A rare migrant in spring 
at Quebec. (Déonne.) I consider this species an irregular spring 
migrant, and have not met with them here in the autumn. (Wint/e.) 
A moderately common migrant in the vicinity of Ottawa. 
(Ottawa Naturalist, Vol. V.) 1 have seldom seen this bird in east- 
ern Ontario. I found this to be the commonest warbler by far in 
Magdalen Islands in June, 1897; I found four nests all built in 
bushy spruce trees at from two to five feet from the ground; they 
are late birds to arrive there and do not commence to build until 
the middle of June; I noticed that the eggs were almost all blotch- 
ed with dark umber brown as well as spotted and speckled like 
the last species. (Rev. C. J. Young.) The black-polls seem very 
local here, as, though I have found them decidedly abundant dur- 
ing the last two years in a particularly nice little patch of tall wil- 
!ows near the lake shore, I do not know of any one else having 
noted a single specimen. May 15th is the earliest date on which 
I have seen them—three males appearing then, and increasing in 
numbers till 26th May, when the first females were seen; by 2nd 
of June all had passed on; my earliest fall note is 27th August, 
and from this date on the numbers daily increase till the trees are 
almost alive with their weak call-notes. While with us in the 
spring the males keep up their somewhat insect-like notes at 
intervals during the whole day, as they glide from branch to 
branch—not dashing and darting about with the vim that is so 
characteristic of many members of thisfamily. (J. Hughes-Samuel.) 
A passing migrant at Guelph, Ont.; not common. (A. B. Klugh.) 
Taken at Fort Churchill, Hudson Bay. (Clarke.) At Oxford 
House, June 30th to July 4th they were rather common; on July 
10th we noticed a pair in a thicket that bordered Hayes River, a 
few miles above York Factory, and on arriving at that post we 
again found the birds rather common; at Fort Churchill, where 
they were also common we took another specimen, July 24th, Igol. 
(Z. A. Prebles.) 
One specimen of this species was procured at Wood Mountain 
on the 49th parallel by Dr. G. M. Dawson, Geologist of the Eng- 
lish Commission. (Cowes.) A rare migrant in Manitoba; probably 
breeding. (Zhompson-Seton.) A tolerably common spring visitant, 
possibly breeds at Avenue, Manitoba. (orman Criddle.) This is 
