646 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA. 
mon summer resident at Guelph, Ont.; arrives about May 11th, 
leaves about August 28th. (4. B. Klugh.) 
A summer resident of wooded hillsides in Manitoba, but its 
habits are not verv well known; has been found more frequently 
to the north of Manitoba. (7ompson-Seton.) A rare summer resid- 
ent at Avenue, Manitoba ; arrives about May 20th and leaves 
about the last of August. (Vorman Criddle.) A single specimen 
of this bird was killed in June at Cumberland House; it was in a 
dense thicket of alder, perched near the ground. (Aéchardson.) One 
specimen secured at Grand Rapids and another at Chemawawin, 
Saskatchewan River. (JVutting.) One specimen taken at Moose 
Factory, James Bay, by Mr. Walter Haydon, in the summer of 
1881. (4.A. Prebles.) Not observed anywhere west of Manitoba 
except at Edmonton, Alta., where a few were observed and one 
taken May 29th, 1897. (Spreadborough.) 
BREEDING Notes.—June t2th, 1902, I found this bird nesting at 
Rice Lake, Ont.; nest ina cavity of a fallen tree root in deep 
woods. (W. Raine.) Nests near Ottawa and at Lake Nominingue, 
100 miles north of Ottawa, in June and July; it is built on the 
ground in the woods, and made of dried leaves, lined with fine 
grass, strips of bark and hairs; the walls are thin for a nest made 
of leaves. (Garneau.) 
On the 28th May, when passing the “‘ old root” of a fallen tree 
I discovered the newly made nest of a small bird, which at first I 
thought might be that of a mourning warbler, whose scolding 
notes I heard near by; on the 5th June, when I thought the set of 
eggs would be deposited I revisited the place; on the nest sat the 
mother bird, and there she remained until I almost touched her 
with my hand, then she flushed out,making some attempts to draw 
off my attention, and uttered a few sharp “chips,” and I saw at 
once that she was a Canadian warbler; the nest then contained 
five eggs, and incubation had begun; the nest was placed in a 
cavity among the rocks, only a few inches above the more level 
earth, and was composed of dry leaves, strips of bark, and other 
fine vegetable fibres, and lined with some long horse-hair; when 
placed side by side with that of JZ. varia previously described, I 
make this comparison of the nests and their sets of eggs, after the 
latter are blown; the nests—in composition and size—are very 
much alike; both are rather loosely put together, but there is quite 
