CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS. 599 



resident at Halifax, N.S. (Downs.) One individual seen on Sable 

 island, N.S., on September 3otli, and one on October 8th, 1902. 

 (/. Boutelier.) Many old nests noticed at Sydney, Cape Breton 

 island; first seen May i8th, 1902. (C. R. Harte.) Observed at 

 Baddeck and Margaree, Cape Breton island, July, 1898; in woods, 

 Union Road, Prince Edward island, July 5tli, 1888. (Macoun.) A 

 common and in a few localities abundant bird, here as elsewhere a 

 tireless songster. It prefers deciduous trees, particularly large 

 maples. (Dwight.) Common summer resident in the interior of 

 New Brunswick, but only seen at St. John in the migrations. (Cham- 

 berlain.) Common summer resident at Scotch Lake, York county, 

 N.B. (W.H. Moore.) Common in Restigouche valley, N.B. (Brit- 

 tain & Cox.) Taken at Beauport ; not rare around Quebec. (Dionne.) 

 An abundant summer resident around Montreal. Breeds in the city 

 and in Mount Royal park; I have found nests from June 6th to 

 August 13th, and observed them here from May nth to October 6th. 

 (WinUe.) 



A common and abundant summer resident ' around Ottawa. 

 (Ottawa Naturalist, Vol. V.) A common summer resident in eastern 

 Ontario. (Rev. C. J. Young.) Regular summer resident at Toronto, 

 Ont. A very common summer resident in Parry Sound and Muskoka 

 districts of Ontario. (/. H. Fleming.) Breeding in Draper town- 

 ship, Muskoka, Ont.; abundant everywhere in Algonquin park, 

 Ont. ; a pair nested in a mountain ash near the buildings at Cache 

 lake ; the nest is made chiefly of birch bark ; I watched them build- 

 ing, they always stopped work as soon as the sun was well up; it 

 seemed to get too warm for them as the tree was in the open; very 

 abundant all down the Moose river and north to East point on the 

 east coast of James bay. (Spreadborough.) Very common summer 

 resident at Guelph, Ont. Arrives about May loth and leaves about 

 September 23rd. (A. B. Klugh.) A common summer resident; 

 at Penetanguishene ; breeds in the hardwood woods ; nests are quite 

 common. (A. F. Young.) 



Abundant about Lake Winnipeg, at Norway House, and between 

 Norway House and Oxford House. In the vicinity of Oxford House 

 its song was heard almost continually. After leaving that point we 

 heard nothing more of the bird. (E. A. Preble.) Abundant at 

 Pembina, where it was breeding in June and again on the upper 



