CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS. 621 
MUSEUM SPECIMENS. 
Twelve ; one purchased with the Holman collection in 1885 ; 
two taken at Ottawa by the writer in May, 1888, also two others 
by Dr. F.A. Saunders in May, 1890 ; one taken at Toronto, Ont., 
by Mr. S. Herring; two at London, Ont., by Mr. W. E. Saunders; 
one taken in Algonquin Park, Ont., May 29th, Ig900, one at 
Medicine Hat, Assa., on May 18th, 1894 and two at Edmonton, 
Alta., May, 1897, all by Mr. W. Spreadborough. 
Two sets of eggs; one set of four eggs taken at Wolfville, N.S., 
June 17th, 1896, by Mr. H. F. Tufts; nest in a small fir tree four 
feet from the ground, composed of fine twigs and grasses lined 
with hair; another of four eggs taken at Halifax, N.S., June 15th, 
1890, by Col. James T. Egan. 
668. Townsend’s Warbler. 
Dendroica townsendi (Towns.) Barrp. 1858. 
A few individuals seen at Revelstoke, B.C., in May, 1890, and 
a male shot on the 23rd. One taken at Huntington, on the Inter- 
national Boundary, in September, 1902, the only one seen; first 
seen on Vancouver Island, April 19th, 1893; shortly after they 
began to nest in the Douglas firs near Victoria. A common 
summer resident on the island. (Spreadborough.) British Colum- 
bia. (Lord.) A single specimen was collected at Mount Lehman 
in September. (S¢veator.) East and west of Coast Range; not 
common. (Fannin.) Migratory at Chilliwack; scarce. (Bvooks.) 
Abundant on Vancouver Island, but rare east of the Coast Range. 
(Rhoads.) One specimen seen at English Bay near Vancouver,B.C., 
August 8th, 1894. (Z. F. G. White.) One taken at Cumshewa Inlet, 
Queen Charlotte Islands, June 15th and five others at Skidegate, 
July 14th; Mr. Keen found it at Massett and noted its spring 
arrival from 1891 to 1898. (Osgood.) A single adult female taken at 
Sitka, Alaska, August 14th, and two others seen at the same time. 
(Grinnell.) Hartlaub states that this species was once seen by Dr. 
Krause on May 27th, in conifers of upper Dejah valley, Alaska, 
which is probably the most northern point from which it has yet 
been recorded. (JVe/son.) Osgood took a male at Skagway, May 
31st. It was tolerably common at Glacier in the dense woods of 
spruce and fir, and unquestionably nesting. Altogether we noted 
about twenty individuals during our stay. Osgood took an adult 
