CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS. 713. 
Common on Moose river from Missinabi, Ont., to Moose Factory, 
James bay. (Spreadborough.) Perhaps a permanent resident in New- 
foundland. (Reeks.) One seen on the Humber river, Newfound- 
land, August 18th, 1899. (Louis H. Porter.) 
A fairly common resident at Halifax, N.S.; associated with the 
chickadees. (Downs.) Five single specimens were seen on Sable 
island in July and August, 1899. There were no signs of nesting 
and in no case were two seen together on any part of the island. 
The one located at the main station entered the houses and caught 
flies in the windows and twice it perched on the writer’s head and 
sprung at the flies in the window from that perch; besides catching 
flies it would hunt up and down the telephone poles and on the fence 
posts and boards for other food; not uncommon at Baddeck and 
Margaree, Cape Breton island, July, 1898; a few were noticed in 
spruce trees at Brackley point, Prince Edward island, 26th June, 
1888. (Macoun.) One seen on July 14th and another September 
8th, 1902, on Sable island, N.S.; one seen May 16th, 1904; numbers 
seen after a gale, November 5th, 1906; seen January 2oth, 1907, 
and all through the following autumn. (J. Boutelier.) I had 
about given up seeing this species at all when I came upon several 
at Souris, Prince Edward island, probably a family. (Dwight.) 
Usually an uncommon resident at St. John, N.B. (Chamberlain.) 
A common permanent resident at Scotch Lake, York county, \.B. 
(W. H. Moore.) Quite common in the Restigouche valley, N.B.; 
young just beginning to fly in July. (Brittain & Cox.) A tolerably 
common summer resident on the Magdalen islands. (Bishop.) A 
permanent and common resident in eastern Quebec. Taken at 
Beauport. (Dzonne.) A common transient visitant at Montreal; 
probably a few breed and winter there. (Wunile.) 
A common resident at Ottawa. (Ottawa Naturalist, Vol. V.) In 
the years 1887 and 1888 this bird appeared to be unusually common 
in Renfrew county, Ont. In the former year I met with four nests. 
Two of these were in partly decayed poplar trees; one about to feet 
and the other about 30 feet from the ground. The eggs are laid the 
second week in May at latest, as on 21st of that month I found the 
young just hatched. A peculiarity of the nest hole is that the 
orifice is smeared with rosin from the neighbouring spruce or pine 
trees, carried by the bird. I did not notice any nests in the pine 
or spruce themselves. About Lansdowne, Leeds co., the bird is 
