670 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA. - 
BREEDING NorTes.—Quite common throughout the prairie 
region, breeding in holes in trees or in clay banks of rivers. At 
Walsh’s ranch, Old Wives’ Creek, Assa., they were nesting in 
holes in ash-leaved maple. At Wood Mountain Post, Assa., nests 
were taken in clay banks; on June 2Ist, 1895, a nest was taken on 
Frenchman’s River, Assa., in a clay bank. On the outside it was. 
built of willow twigs and roots and within lined with large 
feathers and hair. (MWacoun.) 
MUSEUM SPECIMENS. 
Eleven; one taken at Indian Head, Assa., June 6th, 1892, two 
at Old Wives’ Creek, Assa., May, 1895, three at Medicine Hat, 
Assa., May, 1894, two at Edmonton, Alta., June, 1897, one at Can- 
more, Rocky Mountains, May 24th, 1891; one at Cascade, B.C., 
June 12th, 1902, all by Mr. W. Spreadborough. 
Four sets of eggs; one of six taken at Edmonton, Alta., June 
11th, 1897, and another of seven taken June 8th, at the same place, 
both by Mr. W. Spreadborough; one of five taken in the Cypress 
Hills, Assa., July Ist, 1895, and another of five at Medicine Hat, 
Assa., June 2nd, 1894, by Prof. Macoun. 
CCXLV. OLBIORCHILUS OseERHOLSER. 1902. 
722. Winter Wren. 
Olbtorchilus hiemalis (V1EILL.) OBERH. 1902. 
Audubon, Vol. II., p. 129 found this species in southern Labra- 
dor, July 20th, 1833. (Packard.) A common and abundant resident 
throughout the year in Newfoundland. (eeks.) Not very com- 
mon at Halifax ; a few breed in Nova Scotia. (Downs.) Hunter’s 
River, Prince Edward Island, July 2nd, 1888. (AZacoun.) Tolerably 
common in damp woods along brooks, or sometimes in more 
open localities in Prince Edward Island. (Dwight.) A common 
summer resident at St. John, N.B. (Chamberlain.) Common 
summer resident at Scotch Lake, York Co., N.B. (W. AH. Moore.) 
Locally abundant in the Restigouche valley, N.B. (Brittain & 
Cox.) Tolerably common on the Magdalen Islands. (Szshop.) 
Not rare at Lake Mistassini, northern Quebec. (/. M/. Macoun.) 
A common but transient visitant around Montreal ; observed in 
both spring and autumn. (Wzndtle.) Common in many parts of 
eastern Quebec. Taken at Charlesbourg. (Dzonne.) 
