CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS. 641 
wards, when visiting Mr. Dickson, who is station-master on the 
G.T.R. at Waterdown, he pointed out to me an old, unused mill- 
race, grown up with briars and brambles, where the day before he 
had seen a pair of chats mated. Mr. Dickson was collecting at 
the time, and was greatly surprised at their sudden appearance 
within ten feet of where he was standing, but on his moving back- 
ward, with a view of getting toa safer shooting distance, they 
disappeared in the thicket and did not again become visible, 
though they kept up their scolding as long as he remained near 
the place. A pair of this species was also found by Mr. Saunders 
breeding on the north shore of Lake Erie, near Point Pelee, which 
completes the record for Ontario, so far as I have heard. (Mc- 
Llwraith.) 
MUSEUM SPECIMEN. 
One specimen purchased with the Holman collection in 1885. 
683a. Long-tailed Chat. 
Icteria virens longicauda (LAWR.) Cougs. 1872. 
In the bushes which line the banks of the Thompson River, 
below Ashcroft, B.C., I secured two males of this species; another 
was heard singing on a ranch above the town. (Rhoads.) From 
Kamloops south through the Okanagan district of B.C. (Fannin.) 
Sumas, in the Fraser River valley, 26th May, 1897. (Bvooks.) 
CCXXXII. WILSONTA Bovnap. 1838. 
684. Hooded Warbler. 
Wilsonia mitrata (GMEL.) Bonap. 1838. 
Mr. Norval reports finding this species occasionally, at Port 
Rowan, on the north shore of Lake Erie, and I once found a 
young male near Hamilton, Ont. It was found towards the end 
of May when there had been a big bird-wave the previous night, 
and this one had been apparently carried away in the crowd. 
(Mcllwraith.) A specimen of this warbler, rare in Ontario, was 
captured at Cataraqui, near Kingston, Ont., and is now in the 
collection of a resident there. (Rev. C.J. Young.) 
MUSEUM SPECIMEN, 
One purchased with the Holman collection in 1885. 
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