CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS. 655 
young seen in August. (Packard.) One of the earliest spring 
migrants and tolerably common in Newfoundland. (Reeks.) Seen 
in large flocks on the Humber river, Newfoundland, 1899. (Louis 
H. Porter.) In numbers on Sable island, N.S., September 16th, 
1905, and October 3rd, 1907. (J. Boutelier.) One of the earliest 
arrivals in Halifax, N.S.; not very common. (Downs.) A common 
summer resident at Sydney, Cape Breton island. (C. R. Harte.) Com- 
mon migrant in Nova Scotia, afew remain to breed. (H. F. Tufts.) 
A few observed at Baddeck, Cape Breton island, in June, 18go. 
(F. H. Allen.) An incubating female taken at Tignish, Prince 
Edward island is the only evidence I have of this bird‘s occurrence 
there. (Dwight.) The first spring warbler at St. John, N.B.; 
breeds abundantly. (Chamberlain.) Spring migrant at Scotch 
Lake, York county, N.B. (W.H. Moore.) A rare spring migrant 
at Quebec. (Dionne.) A rare transient visitant at Montreal; 
I shot a male specimen of this species May 7th, 1891, on the spur 
of Mount Royal. This is the only example of this warbler that I 
have met with in this district. (Wdntle.) 
A rare migrant at Ottawa; latest record, May 6th and 8th, 1888. 
(Ottawa Naturalist, Vol. V.) I noticed this bird to be very common 
in bushy places and waste ground on Wolfe island near Kingston, 
Ont., near the end of April and beginning of May, 1900. They 
were migrating, but for a few days were quite tame, alighting a 
good deal on the ground at the base of small bushes. (Rev. C. J. 
Young.) 
673. Prairie Warbler. 
Dendroica discolor (VIEILL.) BAIRD. 1858. 
The only note I have of this bird reads:—‘ 11th May, 1900. 
Very cold morning and I did not see more than a dozen common 
warblers from 5 to 7 a.m. As I was coming home I saw a small but 
active little warbler which was quite new to me and I followed it 
for a considerable distance as it passed quickly from tree to ‘tree. 
Ultimately I took it and was pleased to find that I had a specimen 
of the prairie warbler, the first recorded appearance of this bird 
in Ontario.” (J. Hughes-Samuel.) On May 11th, 1900, while on 
a collecting expedition near Toronto, Ont., I took a male “prairie 
warbler in full plumage. (J. H. Ames in The Auk, Vol. XVIIL., 
