CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS. 7O9 
(Downs.) Uncommon resident in Kings county, N.S., though chiefly 
insummer. (H. F. Tujis.) Saw one, October 25th, 1905, on Sable 
island, N.S. (J. Boutelier.) A rather rare summer resident at St. 
John, N.B. (Chamberlain.) A scarce permanent resident at Scotch 
Lake, York county, N.B. (W. H. Moore.) A common transient 
visitant around Montreal; observed nearly all the year; a few 
possibly breed and winter there. (Wunile.) This bird is frequently 
met with in eastern Quebec; taken at Beauport. (Dvonne.) 
A common winter migrant around Ottawa. (Ottawa Naturalist, 
Vol. V.) I have frequently noticed this bird in the fall and early 
spring, though but seldom in the summer; neither have I observed 
it breeding in eastern Ontario, though it probably does. (Rev. C. J. 
Young.) A very common resident in Parry Sound and Muskoka 
districts. Common migrant at Toronto, possibly a rare summer 
resident. (J. H. Fleming.) Not very common in Algonquin park, 
Ont.; have not seenits nest. (Spreadborough.) A common migrant, 
but a rare summer resident around London, Ont. (W.E. Saunders.) 
Common resident at Guelph, Ont.; more abundant in autumn, 
winter and.spring than in summer. (A. B. Klugh.) A common 
resident at Penetanguishene, Ont. (A. F. Young.) A very rare 
summer resident of woodlands in eastern Manitoba. (E. T. Seton.) 
Common in Manitoba as a migrant but not noted breeding. (Atkin- 
Son.) 
BREEDING NoTEs.—Have taken several nests at Ottawa, always 
in deserted woodpecker’s holes. The nests are made of grasses and 
lichens, lined with hair and feathers; eggs 6, white with sparingly 
distributed reddish brown dots. (G. R. White.) Breeds in Welland 
county, Ont., where Mr. Reinecke has taken its nest and eggs; it is 
more plentiful in Muskoka and in northern Ontario, where it makes 
its nest of twigs in a decayed tree-stub under the loose bark and lays 
5 to 6 white eggs, heavily spotted with reddish brown, chiefly at the 
largest end. (W. Raine.) On July 14th, 1903, I saw many brown 
creepers in a swamp and going to a likely looking balsam stub and 
striking it, there was a great commotion at its base and several young 
creepers fluttered away in different directions. I found that I had 
broken off a large piece of bark about two feet from the base of the 
stub, thus disclosing the nest, which was fastened to the loose bark 
with threads of spider’s silk. It was a very deep structure though 
necessarily much flattened (as the bark was only about three inches 
