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counties of Lanark and Leeds, Ont.; in the latter it breeds among the 
Thousand Islands of the St. Lawrence, as I found a nest as late as 
July, 1894. (Rev. C. J. Young.) A pair taken by Mr. Kay, at Port 
Sydney, Muskoka, Ont., on May 24th, 1889, is the only record I have 
for the district. (J. H. Fleming.) Common everywhere in the 
flooded woods at the margins of the lakes in Algonquin park, Ont. 
Common from Missinabi, Ont. to Hannah river, James bay, and up 
the west coast of the bay to Raft river. The singing habits of the 
western form are quite different from the eastern. The former is 
usually seen perched on a dead twig quite above all the surrounding 
bushes or on a dead branch of a tall tree, sometimes forty or fifty 
feet from the ground. The latter is selddém seen except in the 
thickest of thickets, where I have seen them sing within a foot of 
the ground. Never have I seen one singing from a dead twig. 
(Spreadborough.) Breeds commonly around Belmont lake, Peter- 
borough county, Ont.; in the fall migration it is sometimes very 
abundant near Toronto, as was the case from the 12th August to 
15th September, 1900. (/J. Hughes-Samuel.) Common in the 
migrations at London, Ont.; a few bred in retired localities. (W. 
E. Saunders.) Common summer resident at Guelph, Ont.; arrives 
about April 30th, and leaves about August 29th. (A. B. Klugh.) 
I have a set of five eggs that was taken by Mr. Kells, at Listowel, 
western Ontario, on May 22nd, 1890; the nest was built in a cavity 
of a turned-up tree root inaswamp. (W. Razne.) 
BREEDING Notes.—Nest found on the bank of the Rideau river, 
near Ottawa; it was built by the side of a log and composed of moss, 
old leaves and plant stems, intermixed with black rootlets. Eggs, 
five, white with reddish-brown spots, mostly at the larger end. 
(G. R. White.) Near the centre of the woodland, adjoining Wild- 
wood on the north, is a natural water “runway” where most of 
the large timber was up-rooted in the terrible wind and ice storm 
of April, some seven or eight years ago; in one of those up-turned 
roots, below which there is, in the early season, a deep pool of 
water, I have on several occasions, in past years, noticed a nest of 
a water-thrush, and expected this year to take a set of its eggs 
from a cavity in the same old root, but a delay of several days 
having occurred after the time when I intended to have visited it 
for that purpose, I found when I did so on the 28th May, that I 
was too late, the nest was there, but a glance at the four eggs which 
