Notes from tiik Laukentian Hills 303 



mounts the 1:)are rock at the summit and passuiy throu.yh a 

 fringe of evergreens on the downward slope, halts abruptly 

 to gaze on a lakelet set in a dense carpet of Sphagnum moss. 

 The innumerable hollows all have their lakes or brooks. If 

 you are thirsty, the ditch by the roadside usually affords 

 the clearest of spring- water. Late in the afternoon of June 

 29, 1913, having a little leisure before train time, I thought 

 to see what lay beyond the turn of the road in a hitherto 

 unexplored direction. A short walk from St. Margaret, Ter- 

 rebonne County, brought me to a stream which led into a 

 small Sphagnum bog. Hearing the rather distant " Tree- 

 deer " of an Olive-sided Flycatcher I started toward some 

 small-growth Tamarack and Spruce trees fringing the open 

 bog, and as I entered 'their shade a small bird darted out at 

 my feet. The nest, sunk in a hollow in the side of a mound 

 of moss, held four 'eggs well advanced in incubation. 



Thinking it to belong to one of the rarer Warblers I await- 

 ed the owner's return, but with -the short time at my disposal 

 had to leave unsatisfied. On June 20, 1914, I revisited this 

 bog and after considerable search flushed a bird from a nest 

 containing four similarly marked eggs. This was about fifty 

 yards distant from that of 1913 and possibly belonged to the 

 same pair of birds. I had heard the notes of the Yellow- 

 bellied Flycatcher [Euipidonax flaviventris] on 'each visit to 

 this district but did not associate it with either nest found, 

 until the birds put in an appearance in the latter instance. 

 Owing to the ventriloquial quality in the voice of this Fly- 

 catcher it was some time before I discovered the bird, prob- 

 ably the female, perched on a branch two feet from the 

 ground. Its alarm was sharper and more abruptly ended 

 than the call notes, sounding somewhat like the syllables " pee- 

 wheep '" ; the first note suggesting the Wood Peewee and the 

 latter the Alder Flycatcher. The las't note commenced with 

 a rolling and ended with a grating sound, as if the bird had 

 snapped off the sound by suddenly closing its mandibles, ac- 

 companied by a tail and bodily twitching that indicated con- 

 siderable effort. 



