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and fir and unquestionably nesting; altogether we noticed about 
twenty individuals during our stay. Osgood took an adult at the 
southern end of Lake Marsh, July 1st, and I an adult female and 
a young female on the west shore of Lake Lebarge, July 14th. This 
is a new species to the Yukon valley. (Bishop.) Accidental on 
Vancouver island at Esquimault. (Ridgway.) 
BREEDING NoTES.—On the 14th June, as I was passing with a 
team of horses attached to a wagon, along a roadway through the 
above mentioned wood, my companion directed my attention to 
the action of a small bird that was seen to flush almost from under 
the horses’ feet, and by her manner of running along the ground, 
indicated that she had been disturbed off her nest. A little search 
discovered her home, which contained three young just hatched out; 
this was a nest of an oven bird, otherwise known as the accenator, 
or golden-crowned thrush; it was partly sunk in the virgin mould, 
amid dry leaves and some wild-flower stalks, and under a small 
branch, and composed of dry leaves and decayed vegetable stalks, 
and being covered over like a small hut, or oven, was so well con- 
cealed that the passer-by, even in searching for it, could fail in most 
cases to notice it, and this site was only a few inches from where the 
horses and cattle had walked with heavy steps, and where the wheels 
of the wagon had sunk deep in the soft earth; it contained three 
young just hatched; and the mother bird, in leaving it, acted more 
like a mouse than a creature with wings. (W. L. Kells.) A nest 
with four eggs found on July 1st, 1903, near Ottawa; it was under a 
bed of dead leaves, roofed over, but with a side entrance, and had 
the form of an oven; the materials used were leaves and grass; it was 
six inches long, six inches wide and four inches high; the entrance 
was three inches wide and one and a half inches high. (Garneau.) 
Breeds at Rice lake, and fairly common at Carleton Junction, Ont.; 
Mr. Kells has found it nesting at Listowel, in northern Ontario. (W. 
Raine.) The four eggs of this bird are laid about the first part of 
June in a dome-shaped nest of grasses and leaves placed on the 
ground in woods of mixed growth. (W. H. Moore.) Nests in 
woods, thickets and swamps at Guelph, Ont.; nest domed, varying 
much in composition ; most nests are composed of dried grass, leaves, 
twigs and plant stems, lined with leaves and a little hair, the dome 
being composed of fine wiry grass; some nests are composed almost 
entirely of pine needles; eggs mostly five in number, pinky-white, 
