CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS. 687 
brown, chiefly towards the larger end. (G.R. White.) Nests in 
marshy thickets around Ottawa. On April 18th, 1903, a pair of 
birds was seen digging a hole in a fence post and on the 8th June, 
1903, a nest with six young was discovered in a small stump. The 
opening, 18 inches from the ground, was one inch in diameter ; 
' the nest was a mixture of short hairs, green moss and feathers, and 
was at a depth of six inches in the stump. (Garneau.) A common 
.esident in Ontario; it breeds ina hole of a stub excavated usually 
by the bird itself about the middle of May,I have seen fresh eggs 
on the 15th of the month. In its habit of excavating a hole for 
itself it resembles the European mars’ titmouse, the only one of 
the titmice that does so. In its note and otherwise it closely 
resembles this species (Parus palustris). Though during spring 
and summer it is a bird of the woods, in cold winter weather it 
approaches the homes and outbuildings; the present winter (1904) 
this was especially the case. {Rev. C.J. Young.) 
MUSEUM SPECIMENS. 
Ten; two taken at Ottawa by Mr. G. R. White in April, 1894; 
three at Ottawa by Dr. F. A. Saunders, in September, 1890; one 
by the writer, May 4th, 1888; one at London, Ont., by Mr. W. E. 
Saunders, Nov. 16th, 1886; two at Bracebridge, Ont., March 12th, 
1892, by Mr. W. Spreadborough. 
Two sets of eggs; one set of four taken at Emsdale, Muskoka, 
Ont., May 28th, 1893, by Mr. J. H. Fleming and presented to the 
museum; one of six taken at Wolfville, N.S., by Mr. Harold 
Tufts, May 15th, 1897, nest, placed in the bottom of a hole ina 
small birch stump, composed of rootlets and hair. 
735a. Long-tailed Chickadee. 
Parus atricapillus septentrionalts (HARRIS) ALLEN. 1872. 
One taken an the Lower Echimamish, June 24th, 1g01_ (Z£. A. 
Preble.) A specimen of this form was procured at:'Chief Moun- 
tain Lake, Rocky Mountains, on August 28th, 1874. (Cowes.) 
Resident in Manitoba in wooded sections. The Manitoba bird is 
not strictly septentrionalis but is nearer to that form than to a¢7- 
capillus. (Thompson-Seton.) A common breeding resident at 
Aweme, Manitoba. (Vorman Criddie.) Only one individual was seen 
in a three months’ residence at Indian Head, Assa., in the spring of 
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