664 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA. 
in eastern Ontario. A common breeding bird on Wolfe Island, 
near Kingston, Ont. (Rev. C./. Young.) Mr. Kay records one 
from Port Sydney, Muskoka, taken on May 7th, 1890; I am sure 
it occurs at Emsdale, Parry Sound, but have not been able to take 
one. (J. Hf. Fleming.) An uncommon summer resident at Guelph, 
Ont. (A. B. Klugh.) A common summer resident in south- 
western Ontario, but noted sparingly in the north; nests are 
usually made on the ground, often in a brush heap and sometimes 
in shrubs. Eggs three or four, rarely five ; two broods are often 
raised in a season near London, Ont. (W. &. Saunders.) A com- 
mon summer resident at Penetanguishene, Ont.; have found their 
nests situated very near the ground in rose bushes. (A. F. Young.) 
Observed at Pembina which appears to be near the northern 
limit of the distribution of this species ; a nest containing four 
eggs was found at Pembina late in June. (Cowes.) A common 
summer resident of partly open country more especially in the 
southern sections of Manitoba. (Zhompson-Seton.) A common 
summer resident at Avenue, Manitoba; arrives about May Ioth and 
leaves about the middle of September. (Vorman Criddle.) First seen 
at Medicine Hat, Assa., May 12th, 1894,later they came in numbers 
and by May 22nd were very common, in bushes in the creek and 
river valleys, May 30th, found a nest with four fresh eggs undera 
log in a heap of dry brush, nest composed of sticks, lined with 
dry grass, other nests were taken low down in the brush, in close 
thickets; one pair was seen late in June in brush along Swift 
Current Creek in the east end of Cypress Hills ; observed in 
thickets at Old Wives’ Creek, at Wood Mountain and in the 
Milk River valley and on Milk River Ridge in southen Alberta in 
1895; observed one individual at Moose Mountain, almost at tim- 
ber line,about 4o miles southwest of Calgary, July Ist 1897; several 
seen further south on July 15th, near the source of Elbow River. 
(Spreadborough.) This species was only seen at Carlton House 
on the banks of the Saskatchewan where it breeds. (Richardson.) 
BREEDING Notes.—A nest built in a small fir six feet from the 
ground and containing two young birds and three hatched eggs 
discovered near Ottawa on June 7th, 1903. It wasa large nest 
of branches, ten inches in diameter and lined with bark, grass and 
leaves. (Garneau.) A nest found near Beechwood cemetery, 
Ottawa, was built in a brier patch; the nest was a large bulky 
structure of twigs, weed-stalks, dead leaves, strips of bark and 
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