CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS. 565 
BREEDING Notes.—Mr. G. F. Dippie and myself have both 
received eggs and skins of this bird from Red Deer, Alta.; on June 
3rd, 1898, Mr. Wenman found a nest on the Red Deer river, it 
contained four eggs and was built in a poplar five feet from the 
ground. (W. Raine.) 
608. Scarlet Tanager. 
Piranga erythromelas VIEILL. 1819. 
A few occur in the spring in Nova Scotia. (Downs.) Very rare 
summer visitor to the Annapolis valley, N.S. (H. F. Tufts.) A 
very rare summer resident in New Brunswick; has been taken at the 
Grand falls of the St. John. (Chamberlain.) A rare summer visitor 
at Scotch Lake, York county, N.B. (W. H. Moore.) Taken at 
Lorette; a rare summer- visitor around Quebec. (Dionne.) A 
transient visitant, but common around Montreal; I have not seen 
it in the autumn. (Wznile.) 
Moderately common summer resident at Ottawa. (Ottawa 
Naturalist, Vol. V.) Decidedly more abundant at Ottawa than 
formerly. (Rev. E. Eifrig. This handsome bird occasionally breeds 
near Lansdowne, Ont., and I suppose in the county of Renfrew, where 
I have seen it in summer; I once found a nest in June, 1899, built 
in a bushy second growth maple about seven feet from the ground, 
not far from the Grand Trunk railway at Lansdowne. (Rev. C. J. 
Young.) A common summer resident in the districts of Parry 
Sound and Muskoka; breeds in hardwood bush. Regular migrant 
at Toronto, Ont., sometimes common. (J. H. Fleming.) Not 
rare in Algonquin park, Ont. in summer. (Sprveadborough.) A 
common stmmer resident in Middlesex and North Bruce, Ont. 
(W. E. Saunders.) Fairly common summer resident at Guelph, 
Ont.; arrives about May 12th, leaves about September 15th. (A. 
B. Klugh.) A common and breeding summer resident at Pene- 
tanguishene, Ont. (A. F. Young.) Not uncommon in eastern 
Manitoba; known to breed on the shores of the south end of Lake 
Winnipeg; has been seen as far west as Qu’Appelle in southeastern 
Saskatchewan. (E£. T. Seton.) A regular though not common 
migrant at Portage la Prairie, Man. (Atkinson.) 
BREEDING NotTes.—Nest at Ottawa on the horizontal bough of 
a tree; it is rather a large affair, composed of twigs, fibres and 
