CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS. 601 
BREEDING NotTes.—A nest taken by me was a neat cup suspended 
by the brim in the embrace of a forked twig. It was built of strips 
of bark, pine needles, pieces of wasps’ nests and paper. Apparently 
agglutinated with the saliva of the bird, and lined with grass. Eggs, 
three to five; pure white, marked with fine dark reddish-brown spots 
toward the larger end. (G. R. White.) This species lays two or 
three eggs during June in its swinging nest, which is generally placed 
in a sapling maple. A few nests have been found in conifers. (W. 
H. Moore.) This species builds a suspended nest, cup-shaped, the 
brim attached to a small horizontal fork at the end of a branch, 
from two to thirty feet from the ground. The nest is made of 
strips of thin, flexible bark, the outside ornamented with the white 
bark of the birch, and the inside lined with hair-like roots, fine 
leaves or very small twigs. Nesting season in June. Three or four 
eggs are laid. Nests taken at Ottawa and at Lake Nominingue, 100 
miles north of Ottawa. (Garneau.) 
625. Yellow-Green Vireo. 
Vireosylva flavoviridis flavoviridis CASSIN. 1851. 
One specimen of this species was taken at Godbout, on May 13th, 
1883, by Mr. Comeau. (Duonne.) 
626. Philadelphia Vireo. 
Vireosylva philadelphica CASSIN. 1851. 
One individual obtained from Moose Factory, James bay, June 
2nd, 1860, by Drexler. (Packard.) A rare summer visitor around 
Ottawa. (Ottawa Naturalist, Vol. V.) I have met with this bird 
two or three times. Once I found the nest close to Lansdowne 
station, in Leeds county, Ont.; this was im June, 1896. It was built 
in a bush of Spirwa salicifolia, was prehensile like the other vireo’s, 
but not so neatly or closely constructed. It contained one vireo’s 
egg and two cowbird’s. The egg is identical with, but smaller than 
that of the red-eyed. This nest was in a damp pasture field, where 
there were swampy places overgrown with aiders and Spirea. (Rev. 
C. J. Young.) Regular migrant at Toronto, Ont., not very common. 
A not uncommon bird in the Parry Sound district. I believe they 
breed as they are always paired by the middle of May. (J. dH. 
Fleming.) This bird so closely resembles others of its family that 
