CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS. 387 
city of London, Ont. itself than in the country a few miles out. 
One hears it in nearly every shaded street. (W.E. Saunders.) Very 
abundant everywhere in Algonquin park, Ont., July, 1900. (Spread- 
borough.) A nest containing well incubated eggs was collected 
near the south end of Oxford lake, Keewatin, on the morning of 
June 30th ; the female bird was taken with the eggs. (Preble.) 
Very abundant at Pembina and west to Turtle mountain, in lat. 
49°, beyond which it was not seen. (Cowes.) A very abundant 
summer resident of open groves extending its range throughout the 
wooded part of the province of Manitoba. (&. T. Seton.) Common 
at the Grand rapids of the Saskatchewan. (Nutting.) Next to 
the kingbirdythe commonest flycatcher all over Manitoba and west 
to Edmonton. (Atkinson.) Abundant about Aweme, Man. (Criddle.) 
The commonest flycatcher in the timber at Skull and Maple creeks, 
Sask. (A.C. Bent.) First seen at Indian Head, Sask., May 27th, 
1892, later they became fairly common and bred in numbers in the 
vicinity of Deep lake; collected at Medicine Hat and Crane lake, 
Sask., in June, 1894; abundant on Old Wives creek, Sask., at its 
mouth, May 24th, 1895; this species was seen all the way up Old 
Wives creek and at Wood Mountain Post; a small flycatcher was 
seen at Farwell creek, Cypress hills, Sask., which may have been 
this species; taken at Canmore, Alta., within the Rocky mountains, 
but replaced at Banff by Wright’s flycatcher. First seen at Edmon- 
ton, Alta., May 12th, 1897, common next day; abundant from Lesser 
Slave lake to Peace River, Alta., in 1903; in the foothills southwest 
of Calgary, common in July. (Spreadborough.) North to Fort 
Simpson on the Mackenzie; common. (Koss.) 
BREEDING Notes.—A bird almost resembling the last, but a 
trifle smaller. It breeds’commonly in the counties of Leeds and 
Renfrew, selecting a very different locality from trazlli for its nest. 
It is a familiar bird, frequenting orchards and the vicinity of houses, 
as well as the second growth woods. The nests I have seen re- 
semble a redstart’s and were built in the crotch of a maple and of 
apple trees. They contained four yellowish white eggs,’ which were 
laid about the end of May, about two weeks earlier than the last. 
It is also very common in the neighbourhood of Sharbot lake, where, 
in 1903, I noticed five nests close to one another. (Rev..C. J. Young.) 
I found it common on my arrival, the rst of June, and?during that 
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