Id. Dv ■(!IIT, Siimmrr /iinh of Prince Edn-ani f.iliind. V\^n 



ill llie we'-ti'iii poilion of the island. Ndiie Wfre lUilcd at Soiiiis, alllHiUijIi 

 I have no doubt they ocinir there-. 



Sylvania pusilla. Wit.soN's Warh[.kr. — One speeiineii wa-* seemed 

 tit TIgnisli in an extensive aiboi-vitii.' and alder swamp. This is a retir- 

 ing species and is pr(>l)al)Iv not uneonminn it' particular search he made 

 for it. 



Sylvania canadensis. Canadian Warih-kf*. — • Rather common about 

 Tignish, but not met with elsewheie, altlious^h I have no doubt it occurs 

 in snital)le localities. 



Setophaga ruticilla. American Rkdstart. — Abundant. One of its 

 songs might lie easily confused with one of/?. iiuichIosu. The importance 

 of recognizing songs in a region where the denseness of the woods and 

 underbrush renders the sight or capture of the vocalist often well-nigh 

 impossible, is verv great, but to depend entirely upon one's ear in identi- 

 fving birds is a procedure greatly to be deprecated. 



Troglodytes hietnalis. Wintkr Wrkn. — Tolerably common in damp 

 woods along brooks, or sometimes in more open localities. On July 6 I 

 met with a family of young birds able to tly. That so minute a bird 

 should produce such a volume of licpiid sound is ever to me a source of 

 wonderment. It is often impossible to see the little fellow wlien he is 

 pouring forth his song right over yoiu' head, hut those who have ever 

 entered a dense second-growth of spruces, with a wilderness of dead twigs 

 interlacing below, know one of the dilficulties that beset the path of the 

 collector in the northern wootls. 



Sitta canadensis. Rkd-hkllucd Nuthatch. — I had about given up 

 seeing this species at all when 1 came uptin several at Souris, probahlv a 

 family. They feed usually in tlie upper boughs of spruces, and seldom 

 run up autl down the trunks of trees like their white-breasted brethren. 

 They have a nasal cry of one note, utteied with varying intensity, aiul 

 never rapidly repeated like tlie other species. Of course I should not 

 venture such general conclusions as these with regard to this species, nor 

 to others, if they were not based upon further observations made else- 

 where. 



Parus atricapillus. Hlack-caim'ed Chickadke. — Occasionally small 

 roving families were encountered, so that it is probably a fairly common 

 species. 



Parus hudsonicus. Hudsonian Chickadee. — Tolerably common, but 

 not attracting attention to itself so aggressively as does (ttricafiilliis. 

 However, when it does speak out, it alwa^s seems to me to make use of 

 the ungramiTiatical expression 'It's md-e,' with a good deal of emphasis on 

 the 'me-e.' 



Regulus satrapa. Golden-crowned Kinglet. — Infrequently ob- 

 served. Young were on the wing the last of June. It tshould have 

 proved much more abundant than I found it to be. 



Turdus ustulatus swainsonii. Olive-backkd Thrlsh. — Very abun- 

 dant, almost equalling in numbers the Ileiinit Thiusb. They are usnallv 

 excessively shy and difficult to obtain, although several may be singing 



