CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS. 611 
28th of May a nest containing three eggs which, at the time, I 
took to be those of a Canadian warbler. Three days after I re- 
visited the site, found the mother bird ‘‘at home,’’ and seated on 
the nest. At my near approach she flushed off and down upon 
the grcund, where with outspread and quivering wings, and the 
venting of a few notes, she attempted to draw my attention from 
her treasures. Gazing down on the interesting little creature 
within a few feet of where I stood, I was not much surprised, though 
somewhat disappointed, to note that the specimen was of the M. 
varia species, and that it was her nest that was placed before me» 
and which now contained five beautifully spotted fresh eggs. The 
cavity in which the nest was placed had been partly excavated, 
probably by the bird itself; but in order to support the foundation 
quite a large quantity of dead leaves and strips of bark had been 
used, and inside of this there was a lining of fine vegetable materials 
and some animal hair. (W. L. Kells.) I have found in small 
woods, about the middle of June, nests with young warblers able to 
fly. One of those nests, discovered on the 14th of June, was placed 
at the foot of a tree under dead branches. The young birds flew 
away, and in the bottom of the nest was a cowbird’s egg covered 
over as it is in a yellow warbler’s nest. It was made of inner 
bark and leaves, lined with hairs and rootlets. Outside diameter 
4 inches and height 2.50 inches; inside diameter 2 inches by 1.75 
inches deep. (Garneau.) 
CCL. PROTONOTARIA Bairp. 1858. 
637. Prothonotary Warbler. 
Protonotaria citrea (Bopp.) Batrp. 1858. 
A rare migrant in New Brunswick. (Chamberlain.) One speci- 
men taken at Hamilton, Ont., May 23rd, 1888. (Mcllwraith.) 
Has been seen at Toronto, Ont., at least once. (/J. H. Fleming.) 
I have every reason to suppose that this bird occasionally crosses 
the St. Lawrence and visits Ontario, I even think it occasionally 
breeds, for I came across a nest located in the stub of a willow at 
the “‘drowned lands,’’ some eight miles north of Gananoque, which 
contained one egg, and which corresponds with the description of 
site of nest and authentic egg of this bird; the date was June roth, 
1e96, (Rev: GY. Young.) 
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