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CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS. 629 
Rathercommon summer resident at Halifax, N.S.; occurs also at 
Kentville and Grand Lake. (Downs.) A pair seen at Sydney, 
Cape Breton Island, N.S.in 1901. (C. R. Harte.) Observed at 
Baddeck and Margaree, Cape Breton Island, N.S., July, 1808. 
(Macoun.) A few individuals were met with at Tignish, Prince 
Edward Island only. It is invariably found along brooks or in 
their near vicinity. (Dwzght.) A summer resident but not a com- 
mon bird at St. John, N.B. (Chamberlain.) A tolerably common 
summer resident at Scotch Lake, York Co., N.B., breeding in 
June. (W. H. Moore.) Met with frequently in the Restigouche 
valley, N.B. (Brittain G Cox.) Common and breeding at Lake 
Mistassini, Que. (J. W. Macoun.) A scarce summer resident 
around Montreal; it has been taken at Hochelaga and seen at St. 
Lambert, but no nests have been taken, though it evidently breeds 
on the island of Montreal. (Wintle.) Not uncommon around 
Quebec, taken at Beauport. (Dzonne.) 
A moderately common summer resident in the vicinity of Ot- 
tawa. ((tawa Naturalist, Vol. V.) I have noticed this bird both 
in the counties of Lanark and Leeds, Ont.; in the latter it breeds 
among the Thousand Islands of the St. Lawrence, as I found a 
nest as late as July, 1894. -(Kev. C. J. Young.) A pair taken by 
Mr. Kay, at Port Sydney, Muskoka, Ont., on May 24th, 1889, is 
the only record J have for the district. (/. H. Fleming.) Com- 
mon everywhere in the flooded woods at the margins of the lakes 
in Algonquin Park, Ont. (Spreadborough.) Breeds commonly 
around Belmont Lake, Peterboro’ Co., Ont.; in the fall migration 
it is sometimes very abundant near Toronto as was the case from 
the 12th August to 15th September, 1900. (/.Hughes-Samuel.) 
Common in the migrations at London, Ont.; afew breed in retired 
localities. (W. #. Saunders.) Common summer resident at Guelph, 
Ont. ; arrives about April 30th, and leaves about August 29th. 
(A. B. Klugh.) Ihave a set of five eggs that were taken by Mr. 
Kells at Listowel, western Ontario, on May 22nd, 1890; the nest 
was built in a cavity of a turned-up tree root in a swamp. (W. 
Raine.) 
BREEDING Notes.—Nest found on the bank of the Rideau River 
~ near Ottawa; it was built by the side of a log and composed of 
moss, old leaves and plant stems, intermixed with black rootlets. 
Eggs 5, white with reddish brown spots, mostly at the larger end. 
(G. R. White.) Near the centre of the woodland, adjoining Wild- 
