CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS. 627 
seen at Fort McMurray, Lat. 56° 4o’. A few individuals at the 
north end of Methye portage. (/. Ml. Macoun.) This very pretty 
bird breeds on the banks of the Saskatchewan, and perhaps in 
still higher latitudes. One was killed at Cumberland House, 
June Ist, 1827. (Richardson.) From Fort Yukon, some distance 
down the river, this bird is known to breed. Dall tells us that it 
is common in that region, and on May 30th secured a single 
specimen above Nulato; its nesting range extends within the 
Arctic Circle on the upper Yukon. (JVe/son.) Osgood took a 
male at Skagway, Alaska, May 31st, 1899. At Glacier it was 
tolerably common in the dense woods of spruce and fir and un- 
questionably nesting; altogether we noticed about twenty indi- 
viduals during our stay. Osgood took an adult at the southern 
end of Lake Marsh, July Ist and I an adult female and a young 
female on the west shore of Lake Labarge, July 14th. This is a 
new species to the Yukon valley. (Szshop.) Accidental on Van- 
couver Island at Esquimault. (Rzdgway.) 
BREEDING Notes.—On the 14th June as I was passing with a 
team of horses attached to a wagon, along a road-way through 
the above mentioned wood, my companion directed my attention 
to the action of a small bird that was seen to flush almost from 
under the horses’ feet, and by her manner of running along the 
groind, indicated that she had been disturbed off her nest. A 
little search discovered her home which contained :three young 
just hatched out; this was a nest of an oven bird, otherwise 
known as the accenator, or golden-crowned thrush ; it was partly 
sunk in the virgin mould, amid dry leaves and some wild-flower 
stalks, and under a small branch, and composed of dry leaves and 
decayed vegetable stalks, and being covered over like a small 
hut, or oven, was so well concealed that the passer-by even in 
searching for it, could fail in most cases to notice it, and this site 
was only afew inches from where the horses and cattle had 
walked with heavy steps, and where the wheels of the wagon had 
sunk deep in the soft earth; it contained three young just hatched; 
and the mother bird in leaving it acted more like a mouse than a 
creature with wings. (WV. L. Kells.) A nest with four eggs found 
on July Ist, 1903, near Ottawa; it was under a bed of dead leaves, 
roofed over but with a side entrance and had the form of an 
oven; the materials used were leaves and grass; it was six inches 
long, six inches wide and four inches high; the entrance was three 
