362 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA. 
common at Baddeck and other parts of Cape Breton island, August, 
1898. (Macoun.) Not observed but undoubtedly occurs on Prince 
Edward island. Mr. Earle showed me a stuffed specimen. (Dwight.) 
An occasional summer resident at St. John, N.B. (Chamberlain.) 
Summer resident but not common; breeds at Scotch Lake, York 
county, N.B. (W. H. Moore.) Taken at Beauport; a common 
summer resident in Quebec. (Dionne.) Seen from May 27th to 
August 12th, 1858, in Argenteuil county, Que. (D’Urban.) Sum- 
mer resident at Montreal; common. Breeds in the city gardens 
and in Mount Royal park, but their nests are not often found on 
account of their diminutiveness. On their arrival in Montreal in 
spring the flowers of the wild gooseberry and lilac bushes are their 
favourite resorts and later on they frequent horse-chestnut blossoms, 
wild columbine and cultivated flowers. (Wznitle.) 
Common summer resident at Ottawa. (Ottawa Naturalist, Vol. V.) 
Common summer resident at Toronto, Ont.; plentiful during migra- 
tion in Muskoka and Parry Sound districts; at Emsdale, the males 
atrive soon after the 15th of May, the females a few days later; I 
think some go further north but a great many remain to breed. (/. 
H. Fleming.) Not common in Algonquin park, Ont., only three 
observed from May 25th to June 17th, 1900. (Spreadborough.) 
Common at Kew beach, Toronto. Several pairs visit my garden 
every summer and feed on the flowers of the nasturtiums and 
scarlet-runners. (W. Raine.) This species is a common summer 
resident around Winnipeg and westward in diminishing numbers. 
Macoun took it at the head of Lake Winnipegosis, August 16th, 
1881. (E. T. Seton.) Tolerably common at Aweme, Man., possibly 
breeding. (Criddle.) Quite a common breeder throughout the 
settled parts of Manitoba. (Atkinson.) We obtained specimens 
of this species on the plains of the Saskatchewan, and Mr. Drummond 
found one of its nests near the source of the Athabaska river. This 
nest was composed principally of the down of the anemone, bound 
together with a few stalks of moss and bits of lichen. It ranges 
in summer as far north as lat. 57° and may go even further. (Rzch- 
ardson.) 
BREEDING Notes.—Generally distributed in Ontario ; breeds 
commonly about the middle of June. One nest I saw was on the 
outermost branch of a beech ; the eggs were destroyed by black- 
