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only seen at Carlton House, on the banks of the Saskatchewan, 
where it breeds. (Richardson.) 
BREEDING NoTEes.—A nest built in a small fir six feet from the 
ground and containing two young birds and three hatched eggs, dis- 
covered near Ottawa, on June 7th, 1903. It was a large nest of 
branches, ten inches in diameter, and lined with bark, grass and 
leaves. (Garneau.) A nest found near Beechwood cemetery, 
Ottawa, was built in a brier patch; the nest was a large bulky struc- 
ture of twigs, weed-stalks, dead leaves, strips of bark and fibrous 
roots, lined with fine grass; it contained four greenish white eggs 
marked with reddish-brown dots. (G. R. White.) 
CCLXVII. SALPINCTES Casanis. 1847. 
706. Rock Wren. 
Salpinctes obsoletus obsoletus (SAY) CaB. 1847. 
One male of this species was seen in the east end of the Cypress 
hills, Sask., June 26th, 1894; it was also taken at Calgary, Alta., in 
August, 1885; a pair of these birds was noticed on June 14th, 1895, 
in the ‘bad lands,’’ on Rocky creek, south of Wood mountain; the 
species was common along Milk river, and breeding in numbers at 
Castellated rocks, Alta., in July, 1895; saw one individual at Prairie 
creek, northwest of Edmonton, Alta., June 29th, 1898; rather 
common along the railway at Spence Bridge, B.C., in May, 1889; it 
was evidently breeding; common and breeding on rocky hillsides at 
Osoyoos lake, B.C., in June, 1905. (Spreadborough.) Migrant on 
Vancouver island and at Sumas. (Lord.) Rather common about 
Ashcroft; breeds. (Streator.) Common east of the Coast range; 
one specimen taken by me at Burrard inlet, in 1884. (Fannin.) 
Only once seen and shot, in November, 1889, at Chilliwack, BC. 
(Brooks.) Found about Ashcroft and northward to Cache creek, 
B.C.: also at Kamloops, where one was nesting in a ‘“‘section’’ house, 
ten feet from the railroad tracks. (Rhoads.) 
CCLXVIII. THRYOTHORUS Viem.ot. 1816. 
718. Carolina Wren. 
Thryothorus ludovicianus ludovicianus (LATH.) BoNaAP. 1838. 
One specimen of this species lived for a month or two in the winter 
of 1890-91 in the town of Forest, Ont., and was eventually shot in 
