CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS. 633 
spring of 1889, on 29th May, on the bank of Calabogie lake, Ren- 
frew co.; it was built near the top of a cedar against the stem, about 
eight or nine feet from the ground and close to the water, and on 
that date contained four fresh eggs; I easily identified the bird by 
its white throat and other characteristic markings; though I often 
saw the bird in the interval I did not again meet with its nest until 
June 11th, 1902, when I found a nest in a second growth of white 
pine on an island in Gull lake, Frontenac co., Ont.; at this date it 
contained three young birds, recently hatched; on the 16th June I 
found another nest on an island in Sharbot lake; it was just like the 
first one I found close to the water and about seven feet from the 
ground; the nest is large for the bird, built of dead twigs of spruce 
and hemlock with some fibrous roots, and lined with grass, feathers, 
rootlets, etc., the feathers in each nest being a special feature; out- 
side it somewhat resembles the nest of the purple finch. (Rev. C. /. 
Young.) 
The first warbler to arrive in spring at Scotch Lake, N.B., coming 
about the first of May and staying mostly about young growth woods 
or bushy pastures; they are fairly common during migration, and 
some seasons stay to breed; one nest was placed six feet up in a 
tamarac bush and contained four eggs. (W. H. Moore.) Nests 
found around Ottawa in May and June, saddled on the middle of a 
branch six feet from the ground in a large fir tree or at the summit of 
a small cedar tree ten feet high; they are made of twigs and rootlets 
covered with spider webs or a little plant down and lined with feathers 
and hairs; in some the feathers hide the eggs, in others the hairs are 
over the feathers; nest 4x 2 and 2x 1.50. (Garneau.) On the 18th 
June, 1882, I discovered for the first time in my experience, a nest 
of the myrtle warbler; it was in a low, black ash timbered swamp, 
where there was intermingling of other soft woods and conifers, near 
where I had found a bay-breasted warbler the year before, and of 
whose nest I was again in search, when I espied in a low balsam, 
about four feet from the ground, a nest with the mother bird seated 
upon it; at first sight this avifaunian cradle, in situation, material 
and construction, appeared like that of a chipping sparrow, but 
when the bird flushed off on my near approach, and from a position 
on a branch nearby, watched my movements, shifting uneasily and 
uttering a few “chip’’-like notes, I carefully noted her plumage and 
became certain of her identity as a female myrtle warbler. This 
