CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS. 669 
the owner. If the hole chance to be in the least a loose fit, his 
first care is to blockade the doorway with the largest twigs he can 
carry until he has reduced it to his own idea of snugness; and I 
learned to accept it as the infallible doorplate of a wren’s home- 
stead when a bundle of twigs was seen projecting from a cranny 
in some decrepit looking stump, hollow rail or a knot-hole in an 
outhouse. (Zhompson-Seton.) A common summer resident at 
Avenue, Manitoba; arrives about September 20th. (Norman 
Criddle.) First seen at Medicine Hat, Assa., May 15th, 1894, 
common by the 20th; abundant at Crane Lake, Skull Creek 
and east end of Cypress Hills in June, breeding in holes in 
poplar trees and an occasional telegraph pole at Crane Lake; 
this species was found breeding in holes in trees at Old 
Wives’ Lakes, Assa., and at Wood Mountain, in June, 1895; later, 
another nest was taken in a hole im a clay bank along French- 
man’s River, Assa.; not rare in the wooded ravines on the south 
sile of the Cypress Hills; a nest was taken built in a barn swal- 
low’s nest on Sucker Creek, which is the source of Frenchman’s 
River; it was common on Spur Creek, Milk River, Milk River 
Ridge, St. Mary’s River and Lee’s Creek, southern Alberta; com- 
mon from the mouth of Lesser Slave River to Peace River Land- 
ing; breeding in holes in trees and in the sandstone cliffs and cut 
banks of Peace River, Lat. 56° 15’ in June, 1903; observed from 
Edmonton to Athabasca Pass in June, 1898; first seen at Edmon- 
ton, Alta., May 6th, 1897; on June 8th found a nest with seven 
eggs in a hole in a birch stub about six feet from the ground, nest 
built of sticks and lined with feathers, eggs quite fresh; on the 
11th took another nest in a poplar stub about four feet from the 
ground, nest same as before; common south of Calgary in the 
foothills in June and July; rare at Banff, Rocky Mountains, and 
breeding in holes in trees in June, 1891; shot at Revelstoke, B.C., 
May 3rd, 1890; a few pairs were breeding at Robson, B.C.; a nest 
was taken out of a hollow tree on Pass Creek, 700 feet above the 
Columbia River, June 20th, 1890; observed a few at Trail, on the 
Columbia River, near the 4gth parallel; breeding in holes, in 
houses and trees in the summer of 1902. (Spreadborough.) One 
specimen of this wren was procured by Mr. Drummond at the foot 
of the Rocky Mountains, but no others were seen by any of us 
to the eastward. (Réchardson.) Frequently seen at Prince Albert, 
Sask., in summer. (Coubeaux.) 
