CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS. 671 
coast region of southern British Columbia to California. Taken at 
Comox, Vancouver island. (Oberholser.) First seen at Revelstoke, 
B.C., on May 15th, 1890, later they became common and commenced 
to breed, the males were very much in evidence; late in June they 
were found breeding at Robson, on the Columbia river; one in- 
dividual was observed in a marsh at Sheep creek, on the International 
Boundary in May, 1902; quite common in thickets along the North 
Thompson at Kamloops, B.C., in June, 1889; very common in wet 
woods at Agassiz, B.C., in May, 1889; observed a number at Chilli- 
wack, B.C., in the spring of 1901; saw one at Huntingdon on the 
International Boundary, B.C., in autumn; rather rare on Van- 
couver island, a few taken in 1893; common in reeds by small lakes 
near Elko, B.C. in 1904; common in the marshes at Osoyoos lake 
and along the Similkameen river in 1905, also along the Hope trail. 
(Spreadborough.) Common everywhere ; breeds. (Streator.) <A 
common summer resident throughout the greater portion of the 
province. (Fannin.) An abundant summer resident at Chilliwack. 
(Brooks.) Rare on Vancouver island, abundant at Lulu island in 
the Fraser valley, and about the shores of reedy lakes in the interior 
of British Columbia. (Rhoads.) 
CCLVII. ICTERIA VieILLor. 1807. 
683. Yellow-breasted Chat. 
Icteria virens virens (LINN.) BAIRD. 1865. 
The only specimen of this species I ever collected was on 16th 
May, 1884, when I found a dead individual near my house where it 
was probably killed by a telegraph wire. A week or so afterwards, 
when visiting Mr. Dickson, who is station master on the G.T.R. at 
Waterdown, he pointed out to me an old, unused millrace, grown up 
with briars and brambles, where the day before he had seen a pair 
of chats mated. Mr. Dickson was collecting at the time, and was 
greatly surprised at the sudden appearance within ten feet of where 
he was standing, but on his moving backwards, with a view of getting 
to a safer shooting distance, they disappeared in the thicket and 
did not again become visible, though they kept up their scolding 
as long as he remained near the place. A pair of this species was 
also found by Mr. Saunders breeding on the north shore of Lake 
Erie, near Point Pelee in 1884, which completes the record for On- 
