620 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA. 
common at Baddeck and Margaree, Cape Breton Island, July, 
1898. (Macoun.) Abundant at every place visited on Prince Ed- 
ward Island where the forest was of considerable size. (Dwight.) 
A common summer migrant in the vicinity of St. John, N.B. 
(Chamberlain.) A common summer resident at Scotch Lake, 
York Co., N.B. (W. A. Moore.) Rare on the Magdalen Islands; 
one pair seen on Grindstone Island. (Bzshop.) Rare in the Resti- 
gouche valley, N.B. (Brittain & Cox.) Met with only about 
Port Hawksbury, Cape Breton Island, and at Fox and Ellis bays, 
Anticosti. (Bvewster.) A rather common summer resident at 
Quebec ; taken at Charlesbourg. (Dzonne.) A common spring 
migrant, but a scarce summer resident at Montreal. Observed 
here about May 7th and leave about October 1oth. (Wntle.) 
A moderately common migrant in the vicinity of Ottawa. 
(Ottawa Naturalist, Vol. V.) A few of these birds are to be met 
with in eastern Ontario in the breeding season; I met with a nest 
once in the month of July, 1898; this was on Deer Island, one of 
the Thousand Islands; it was built ina pine tree about 25 feet 
from the ground and at the time contained young birds. (Rev. 
C.J. Young.) A common summer resident in Parry Sound and 
Muskoka districts. Mr. Kay refers to it as only just becoming 
common at Port Sydney, Muskoka in 1890. (J. A. Fleming.) Not 
very common in summer in Algonquin Park, Ont. in 1900; only a 
few observed in the tree tops in thick woods. (Spreadborough.) 
Abundant summer resident around Toronto. (/. Hughes-Samuel.) 
A rather common summer resident in the deeper cedar swamps 
around London; abundant as a migrant; a common breeding bird 
in North Bruce. (W. &. Saunders.) Fairly common summer 
resident at Guelph, Ont., and abundant during migrations. This 
year (1903) it has been as common a breeder as the yellow and 
black-and-white warblers and by far our most abundant migrant; 
arrives about May Ist and leaves about September 30th. (A.B. 
Klugh.) 
One specimen taken at Medicine Hat, Assa., May 17th, 1894 ; 
the only one seen; first seen at Edmonton, Alta., May 15th, 1897; 
common in spruce woods by May 22nd; breeding in the woods; 
one pair seenat Peace River Landing in Lat. 56° 15’ in June, 1903. 
(Spreadborough.) This species was seen at Avenue, Manitoba, on 
May 13th and 17th, 1898. (Norman Criddle.) 
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