CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS. 695 
Royal, containing three eggs, May 24th, 1890; not observed in the 
autumn, and think it must be an early migrant in the fall. (Wdznile.) 
A moderately common summer resident around Ottawa. (Ottawa 
Naturalist, Vol. V.) Common in suitable places in eastern Ontario. 
A common breeding bird on Wolfe island, near Kingston, Ont. (Rev. 
C. J. Young.) Regular summer resident at Toronto, Ont. Mr. Kay 
records one from Port Sydney, Muskoka, taken on May 7th, 1890; 
I am sure it occurs at Emsdale, Parry Sound, but have not been able 
to take one. (J. H. Fleming.) An uncommon summer resident at 
Guelph, Ont. (A. B. Klugh.) A common summer resident in 
southwestern Ontario, but noted sparingly in the north; nests are 
usually made on the ground, often in a brush heap and sometimes 
in shrubs. Eggs, three or four; rarely five; two broods are often 
raised in a season near London, Ont. (W.E. Saunders.) A common 
summer resident at Penetanguishene, Ont.; have found their nests 
situated very near the ground in rose bushes. (A. F. Young.) 
Observed at Pembina, which appears to be near the northern 
limit of the distribution of this species; a nest containing four eggs 
was found at Pembina late in June. (Cowes.) A common summer 
resident of partly open country, more especially in the southern sec- 
tions of Manitoba. (FE. T. Seton.) A common summer resident at 
Aweme, Manitoba; arrives about May t1oth and leaves about the 
middle of September. (Criddle.) A regularly breeding, but not 
common species in Manitoba and the west, being most abundant 
along the heavier wooded river courses; noted west to Touchwood 
hills, Sask., in 1906. (Atkinson.) Uncommon in the timber belts 
of southwestern Saskatchewan in 1906. (A.C. Bent.) First seen 
at Medicine Hat., Sask., May 12th, 1894; later they came in numbers 
and by May 22nd, were very common; in bushes in the creek and 
river valleys, May 30th; found a nest with four fresh eggs under a 
log in a heap of dry brush; nest composed of sticks, lined with dry 
grass; other nests were taken low down in the brush in close thickets ; 
one pair was seen late in June in brush along Swift Current creek, in 
the east end of Cypress hills; observed in thickets at Old Wives 
creek, at Wood mountain and in the Milk river valley and on Milk 
river ridge, in southern Alberta, in 1895; observed one individual at 
Moose mountain, almost at timber line, about forty miles southwest 
of Calgary, July 1st, 1897; several seen further south on July 15th, 
near the source of Elbow river. (Spreadborough.) This species was 
