676 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA. 
Island, above the Victoria Bridge. I found a pair nesting in the 
bullrushes and rank herbage at the mouth of Laprairie. (Winile.) 
A common summer resident around Ottawa. (Ottawa Natur- 
alist, Vol. V.) One of the commonest birds in eastern Ontario 
about the St. Lawrence below Kingston. Sometimes remaining 
until the middle of September. (Rev. C./. Young.) A common 
resident of marshes in eastern Manitoba. Mr. Hunter has noticed 
it from Selkirk to Souris, particularly at Shoal Lake, north of 
Winnipeg, where they appear to be very common. I have never 
seen it at Carberry nor on the upper Assiniboine. (Zhompson- 
Seton.) A tolerably common summer resident at Aweme, Mani- 
toba. (Morman Criddle.) Apparently a rare spring migrant at 
Indian Head, Assa. Only one individual seen June 15th, 1892. 
(Spreadborough.) Three specimens of this species were secured at 
Chemawawin near the Grand Forks of the Saskatchewan. 
(Nutting.) 
BREEDING Notres.—Builds a large bulky nest in reeds in 
marshes around Ottawa. The nest is made of tops of grasseS 
and reeds worked into a ball with a hole in one side, lined with 
fine grass. Eggs, 6 to 8, of a rich dark chocolate or so spotted with 
chocolate as to make the ground colour appear to be chocolate. 
(G. Rk. White.) Breeds abundantly in the marsh behind my house 
at Kew Beach, Toronto. (W. Raine.) 
MUSEUM SPECIMENS. 
Two; both taken at Ottawa, one by the writer in May, 1888, 
and the other by Dr F. A. Saunders, July 9th, 1890. 
One set of six eggs taken in Toronto marsh in June, 1886, and 
présented by Mr. W. Raine. 
725a. Tulé Wren. 
Lelmatodytes palustris paludicola (BAIRD) Ripew. 1877. 
Rather common in Burnaby Lake about three miles from New 
Westminster, B.C.,in April, 1889. There were many nests, both 
old and new, built securely to bullrushes (Scirpus lacustris) stand- 
ing in the water. All the nests were oven-shaped and evidently 
the lake was the home of a large colony; in the summer of IgOI 
two individuals were seen ina peat bog at Huntington, B.C., on 
the 4gth parallel; first seen at Penticton, south of Lake Okana- 
