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to be met with. That interesting group of birds, the warblers, is well 

 represented. The common yellow warbler is very common some years, 

 as last summer, when they were extraordinarily numerous, their nests 

 being met with everywhere. In other years scarcely a nest is to be 

 seen. In the County ot" Lanark I found the black and yellow warbler 

 breeding as late as July, and have also seen the bird in Renfrew. I 

 met with a specimen of the chestnut-sided last summer by the Mada- 

 waska River, but this is the only time I have seen it. We have seve- 

 ral others of this group, but they are hard to identify. The Arctic three- 

 toed woodpecker has been unsually abundant during the past fall and 

 winter. I saw eight or ten ot them, but only one with the yellow 

 stripe on the head. My first record is October 11th. Snow birds ap- 

 peared very early last fall. I saw the first one on October 10th. The 

 pine grosbeak has been common. I saw a number of small flocks, but 

 have never seen any before in a period of five years in Lanark or Ren- 

 frew. There were also numbers of the American goldfinch or wild 

 canary about in flocks during the winter, and the pine siskin has also 

 been unusually numerous. My many engagements and other calls have 

 not allowed me to give the time to this ])aper which I intended, and 

 with regret I have to omit many items which I thought to bring in. 

 However, I have, perhaps, well nigh succeeded in wearying you ; yet I 

 trust the little information I have given may not be thrown away, but 

 that all of you who take the same interest in the subject as I have done 

 may, whenever the opportunity occurs, turn once again to the scene of 

 former labors, and strive, for the benefit and encoui*agement of others 

 who will afterwards follow in his footsteps, to unravel some of the still 

 hidden mysteries of the bii'd creation. 



