CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS. 369 
autumn. (Spreadborough.) One specimen seen at Grand rapids 
of the Athabaska. A few birds seen at north end of Methye portage, 
lat. 56°. A few specimens between Methye lake and Isle a la Crosse. 
(J. M. Macoun.) This well known bird is common on the banks of 
the Saskatchewan, and ranges in summer to lat. 57°, or 
beyond it. (Richardson.) North to Fort Simpson on the Mac- 
kenzie river; rare. (Ross.) Vancouver island and throughout 
British Columbia. (Lord.) Abundant in the interior and decreas- 
ing in numbers towards the coast. (Streator.) East and west of 
the coast range; more common on the mainland; a summier resident. 
(Fannin.) Common summer resident at Chilliwack. (Brooks.) 
Abundant in the interior of British Columbia. (Rhoads.) 
BREEDING Notes.—Common everywhere in Ontario. Its nest 
is sometimes found as late as the middle of July with fresh eggs. 
(Rev. C. J. Young.) I examined a nest of this bird June 3oth, 
1880, which was built in a thorn bush in Mount Royal park. It 
contained younglings covered with white down. Observed from 
May 4th to August 22nd. (Wuanitle.) Nest found on Duck island 
near Ottawa, Ont., rst July, 1897, in a low bush, was composed of 
fibrous roots and dried vegetable substances, lined with fine grass; 
eggs four, creamy white, spotted and blotched with reddish and 
dark brown spots. (G. R. White.) On July 21st, 1882, down by 
the slough in a low bush, found a kingbird’s ‘nest. It was just 
completed and contained no eggs yet. The king and his wife made 
more fuss over my intrusion than most birds would have done had 
the nest been full of young ones. Further on I found another nest 
of this species. It was placed on top of a stub, about eight feet 
high. The bird flew off. The nest was made of roots and fine 
fibres and contained four eggs. One of them measured 1} by 3; 
it was creamy white, with a few clear spots-of brown and lavender, 
inclined to form a wreath about the large end; the others were 
similar; all were quite fresh. (EF. T. Seton.) The kingbird breeds 
in the low scrubby oak trees which cover the sand-hills in western 
Manitoba, building, like the shrike, a nest consisting largely of the 
stalks of a species of Gnaphalium. After the young are able to fly 
they often live around the settler’s houses on the open prairie, but 
about the end of August they all leave. (Christy.) Extremely 
numerous at Pembina, where many nests were taken after the 
middle of June, and traced westward as far as the survey progressed 
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