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nests are not often found on account of their diminu- 

 tiveness, so that this beautiful little bird is safe from 

 the " egg-hog " or small boy, and can rear its young 

 in safety. On their arrival here in the spring, wild 

 gooseberry, and lilac bushes, are their favorite re- 

 sorts, and later on they frequent chestnut tree blos- 

 soms, wild columbine, and cultivated flowers. This 

 species is the only one of about eighteen different 

 hummingbirds classed as North American found in 

 the Dominion of Canada east of the Rocky Moun- 

 tains. It is not found in British Columbia, but 

 Mr. Fannin's check-list of British Columbia birds 

 gives four other species of hummingbirds as occur- 

 ring there. Observed from May 11 to August 29. 



Order PASSERES. Perching Birds. 



Suborder Clamatores. Songless Perching Birds. 



Family Tyrannidce. Tyrant Flycatchers. 



Genus Tyrannus. Cuvier. 



142. Kingbird (Tyrant Flycatcher; Bee-martin.) 



T. tyrannus. (Linn ) 



" Summer Resident," common. Breeds in the 

 city and in Mount Royal Park. I examined a nest 

 of this bird June 30, 1880, which was built in a 

 thorn tree in Mount Royal Park. It contained 

 younglings covered with white down Observed 

 from May 14 to August 22. 



