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brambles and ferns near some large woods. It was a somewhat 
loosely built structure of weeds, leaves and dry grass, lined with 
some fibres and black hair hardly 12 inches above the ground and 
well concealed. (Rev. C. /. Young.) 
MUSEUM SPECIMENS. 
Four; one purchased with the Holman collection in 1885; three 
taken in Algonquin Park, Ont., in May, 1go0, by Mr. W. Pps 
borough. 
680. Tolmie’s Warbler. 
Geothlypis tolmiet (TOWNS.) STONE. 1899. 
A single specimen of this species was secured in the Rocky 
Mountains in August, near Chief Mountain. (Cowes.) Quite 
common in the brush along the upper branches of Swift Current 
Creek in the east end of the Cypress Hills, Assa.; a nest was 
taken on June 25th, 1894, it was placed under the root of a 
turned-up tree on a few dead sticks about six inches from the 
ground and contained four eggs nearly hatched; nest very bulky, 
composed of reeds, lined with alittle horse hair and dry grass; on 
June 11th, 1895, this species was taken at Wood Mountain Post, 
Assa.,and seen at Medicine Lodge,near the 4gth parallel a few days 
later; very common in all the wooded ravines on the south side of 
the Cypress Hills, anest was taken on the 26th June along a creek 
in the hills; seen on the West Butte, Sweet Grass Hills and at 
Waterton Lake, on the 4oth parallel, in July, 1895; quite common 
and breeding at Banff, Rocky Mountains, in the summer of 1891; 
first seen at Edmonton, Alta., June 3rd, 1897, not common, found 
chiefly along the high banks back of the river where there ts 
plenty of dead brush, they breed here without doubt ; observed 
from Lesser Slave Lake to Peace River Landing in June,1g03; seen 
in the foothills south of Crow’s Nest Pass; seen at Revelstoke,B.C., 
May 2Ist, 1890; they soon became common close to the ground 
and commencd to breed, later they were found at Deer Park and 
Robson, on the Columbia River, where they were common; occa- 
sional on the north bank of the Thompson at Kamloops in June, 
1889; abundant in low woods at Agassiz, B.C.,after May 9th, 1889; 
abundant at Chilliwack, B.C., in the spring of I902; none were 
seen in the autumn; first observed two males near Victoria, Van- 
couver Island, May gth, 1893; by the 11th of the month they were 
