672 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA. 
This season, however, I saw one on January 23rd (1894) in a 
woodland dell, which it frequents during the summer, and near 
where I had found two nests. On March 30th,I again heard it in 
the same place, and from that date they became more common. 
Toward the centre of our sugar bush, and not far from the ‘‘camp 
fire,” the ground is rather low, and here most of the larger timber 
was uprooted by that terrible windstorm of April 2oth, 1893; hav- 
ing noticed the winter wrens frequently during April, in this bush, 
I expected that they were going to nest here again, and a search 
on May 2nd, was rewarded with the discovery of a nearly com- | 
pleted nest in one of the highest roots. I think it was four days 
later that I again visited it, when it contained four eggs; on the 
gth, I flushed the bird from her nest, which I carefully removed 
from its place in the soil and fine roots, and found the number of 
eggs to be six, which were apparently pure white, but if held up 
to a strong light, after being blown, the minute markings, with 
which the larger part of the surface is dotted, became visible; the 
site of the nest was about six feet above the ground, or rather 
water, which filled the space out of which the root had been torn; 
the nest resembled a round ball of moss with an entrance hole on 
the outer side; it measured over twelve inches in circumferance ; 
the exterior was almost wholly composed of a species of moss, 
common on the lower parts of trees and logs in low grounds; 
around the entrance are a number of the stalks of hemlock leaves, 
while the inside is nearly lined with fine vegetable matter, hair 
and feathers. This set was completed on the 8th of May and is 
the earliest date I have ever taken their eggs. Of the seven nests 
collected in this vicinity four contained six eggs each, and three 
five; all of these were built in the upturned roots of fallen trees, 
which is evidently their favourite nesting place,though it certainly 
builds in other situations. (Wm. L. Kells.) 
MUSEUM SPECIMENS. 
One taken at Ottawa, May 13th, 1890, by Dr. F. A. Saunders. 
One set of five eggs taken near Toronto, Ont., June 2nd, 1894, 
and presented by Mr. W. Raine. 
722a. Western Winter Wren. 
Olbiorchilus hiemalis pacificus (BAIRD) OBERH. IQgOlI. 
Common in thick spruce woods from Lesser Slave Lake to 
Peace River Landing, Lat. 56° 15’,in June, 1903; observed one on 
