CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS. 711 
A rare summer migrant at Ottawa. (Ottawa Naturalist, Vol. V.) 
I have only noticed this bird once in eastern Ontario. I picked 
up a dead bird by the roadside near Lansdowne about the end of 
April, 1898. (Rev. C.J. Young.) A common summer resident in 
Parry Sound and Muskoka districts. (/. H. Fleming.) Abundant 
everywhere in Algonquin Park, Ont., in the summer of Igoo. 
(Spreadborough.) A passing migrant at Guelph, Ont. (A.B. Klugh.) 
The song of this species was heard at Bull Head Point, Lake 
Winnipeg, on the morning of June 16th. The birds were rather 
common at Norway House, and were seen or heard daily between 
there and Oxford House. They were common at Oxford House 
and a specimen was taken at that point; while descending the 
streams between Oxford House and York Factory we found them 
abundant; every wooded islet in the lakes seemed to be the home 
of a pair, and wherever we camped we heard their songs, which 
began soon after midnight ; a nest found in a bush overhanging 
Jack River, between Knee and Swampy lakes, July 6th, contained 
eggs on the point of hatching. At York Factory, where we took 
two specimens, the species was apparently less abundant, and 
beyond that point we did not meet with it. Baird recorded a 
specimen collected at Moose Factory in July, 1860, by Drexler. 
(EZ. A. Preble.) After giving a number of references, regarding 
the occurrence of this bird in Manitoba, Mr. Thompson-Seton 
says he is disposed t@ question them all. Yet he speaks of its 
occurrence at Carberry, Manitoba, and apparently breeding; while 
not giving an opinion I may say that both this form and the gray- 
cheeked thrush were taken in the spring of 1892 at Indian Head, 
Assa.; first seen on May 16th, 1894, at Medicine Hat, Assa.,; the 
next day they were abundant and in a day or two there were only 
a few stragglers left, a few remained to breed as they were seen 
later; afew were observed at Old Wives’ Creek, Assa., in the latter 
part of May, 1895; abundant from the mouth of Lesser Slave 
River to Peace River Landing, June, 1903; first seen at Edmonton, 
Alta., May 8th, 1897; afterwards it became common and nests and 
eggs were taken; common from Edmonton to the Athabasca Pass, 
in June, 1898; common in the foothills south of Calgary to Crow’s 
Nest Pass ; this was a common summer resident at Banff, Rocky 
Mountains, in 1891; a few seen at Deer Park, Columbia River, 
and breeding in numbers at Robson late in June, 1890; first seen at 
Elko, B.C., May 14th, 1904; common by the 2ist. (Spreadborough.) 
