CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS. 565' 



Breeding Notes. — Mr. G. F. Dippie and myself have both 

 received eggs and skins of this bird from Red Deer, Alta. ; on June 

 3rd, 1898, Mr. Wenman found a nest on the Red Deer river, it 

 contained four eggs and was built in a poplar five feet from the 

 ground. {W, Raine.) 



608. Scarlet Tanager. 



Piranga erythromelas Vieill . 1 8 1 9 . 



A few occur in the spring in Nova Scotia. {Downs.) Very rare 

 summer visitor to the AnnapoUs valley, N.S. {H. F. Tufts.) A 

 very rare summer resident in New Brunswick ; has been taken at the 

 Grand falls of the St. John. {Chamberlain.) A rare summer visitor 

 at Scotch Lake, York county, N.B. {W. H. Moore.) Taken at 

 Lorette; a rare summer visitor around Quebec. {Dionne.) A 

 transient visitant, but common around Montreal; I have not seen 

 it in the autumn. {Wintle.) 



Moderately common summer resident at Ottawa. {Ottawa 

 Naturalist, Vol. V.) Decidedly more abundant at Ottawa than 

 formerly. {Rev. E. Eifrig. This handsome bird occasionally breeds 

 near Lansdowne, Ont., and I suppose in the county of Renfrew, where 

 I have seen it in summer; I once found a nest in June, 1899, built 

 in a bushy second growth maple about seven feet from the ground, 

 not far from the Grand Trunk railway at Lansdowne. {Rev. C. J- 

 Young.) A common summer resident in the districts of Parry 

 Sound and Muskoka; breeds in hardwood bush. Regular migrant 

 at Toronto, Ont., sometimes common. (/. H. Fleming.) Not 

 rare in Algonquin park, Ont. in summer. {Spreadborough.) A 

 common summer resident in Middlesex and North Bruce, Ont. 

 {W. E. Saunders.) Fairly common summer resident at Guelph, 

 Ont.; arrives about May 12th, leaves about September 15th. {A. 

 B. Klugh.) A common and breeding summer resident at Pene- 

 tang^ishene, Ont. (^4. F. Young.) Not uncommon in eastern 

 Manitoba; known to breed on the shores of the south end of Lake 

 Winnipeg; has been seen as far west as Qu'AppeUe in southeastern 

 Saskatchewan. {E. T. Seton.) A regular though not common 

 migrant at Portage la Prairie, Man. {Atkinson.) 



Breeding Notes. — Nest at Ottawa on the horizontal bough of 

 a tree; it is rather a large affair, composed of twigs, fibres and 



