CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS. 615 
and quills from the western porcupine. (Spreadborough.) Com- 
mon in the Okanagan district of B.C. (Brooks.) Two examples 
were taken at Vernon, B.C., and others were seen at Nelson. They 
may be considered as neither rare nor abundant in British Columbia. 
(Rhoads.) Taken at Vernon, Lake Okanagan, by Mr. A. C. Brooks 
in 1898. (Fannin.) 
646. Orange-crowned Warbler. 
Helminthophila celata celata (SAY) RipGw. 1882. 
Of rare occurrence at St. John, N.B., but has never been record - 
ed at Scotch Lake. (W. H. Moore.) One example taken at Beau- 
port near Quebec, in 1890. (Dionne.) A rare transient visitant at 
Montreal. I shot a male specimen of this warbler, May 21st, 1890, 
on the spur of Mount Royal and it is the only one of the kind I have 
met with here. (Wuintle.) A casual in the vicinity of Ottawa; a 
male was shot by Mr. E. F. G. White, Sept. 27th, 1885, near the 
eastern end of the city. (Ottawa Naturalist, Vol. V.) Among the 
first warblers to arrive in the spring of 1906 at Madoc, Ont. I first 
saw it searching for insects on the buds of poplar trees that fringe 
a tamarac and cedar swamp. This was on May 14th. (Rev. C. J. 
Young.) Regular migrant at Toronto, Ont., rare; I have records 
of only eight in eight years. (J. H. Fleming.) During several 
seasons of careful observations I have only once met with a small 
party of these warblers; this was on 12th May, 1900 when I was 
fortunate in obtaining two specimens, one of which I was surprised 
to find on dissecting was a female. The plumage of this bird is very 
plain and but for the frequency of its call note or “chep” might 
easily pass unnoticed; and even when its presence is detected it is 
so remarkably active and darts so rapidly from tree to tree that its 
capture is by no means certain. (J. Hughes-Samuel.) As a strag- 
gler I have met with this bird on only two occasions, the latter 
being on the 11th of May, 1886 when a specimen was taken at 
Hamilton Beach by Mr. K.C. McIlwraith. (Mcllwraith.) A re- 
gular migrant at London, Ont.; but nevercommon. (W. E. Saun- 
ders.) A few seen on the east coast of James bay, July, 1904. 
(Spreadborough.) One was taken in a willow thicket at York 
Factory, July 16th, 1901, and the species was again noted near Pine 
lake, September 13th and at Duck point, Playgreen lake, Septemher 
19th. (E. A. Preble.) 
