CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS. 6oi 



Breeding Notes.^ — A nest taken by me was a neat cup suspended 

 by the brim in the embrace of a forked twig. It was built of strips 

 of bark, pine needles, pieces of wasps' nests and paper. Apparently 

 agglutinated with the saliva of the bird, and lined with grass. Eggs, 

 three to five ; pure white, marked with fine dark reddish-brown spots 

 toward the larger end. {G. R. White.) This species lays two or 

 three eggs during June in its swinging nest, which is generally placed 

 in a sapling maple. A few nests have been found in conifers. (W. 

 H. Moore.) This species builds a suspended nest, cup-shaped, the 

 brim attached to a small horizontal fork at the end of a branch, 

 from two to thirty feet from the ground. The nest is made of 

 strips of thin, flexible bark, the outside ornamented with the white 

 bark of the birch, and the inside lined with hair-like roots, fine 

 leaves or very small twigs. Nesting season in June. Three or four 

 eggs are laid. Nests taken at Ottawa and at Lake Nominingue, loo 

 miles north of Ottawa. (Garneau.) 



625. Yellow-Green Vireo. 



Vireosylva flavomridis flavoviridis Cassin. 1851. 



One specimen of this species was taken at Godbout, on May 13th, 

 1883, by Mr. Comeau. (Dionne.) 



626. Philadelphia Vireo. 



Vireosylva philadelphica Cassin. 1851. 



One individual obtained from Moose Factory, James bay, June 

 2nd, i860, by Drexler. {Packard.) A rare summer visitor around 

 Ottawa. {Ottawa Naturalist, Vol. V.) I have met with this bird 

 two or three times. Once I found the nest close to Lansdowne 

 station, in Leeds county, Ont. ; this was in June, 1896. It was built 

 in a bush of Spirasa salicijolia, was prehensile like the other vireo's, 

 but not so neatly or closely constructed. It contained one vireo's 

 egg and two cowbird's. The egg is identical with, but smaller than 

 that of the red-eyed. This nest was in'a damp pasture field, where 

 there were swampy places overgrown with alders and Spiraea. {Rev. 

 C. J. Young.) Regular migrant at Toronto, Ont., not very common. 

 A not uncommon bird in the Parry Sound district. I believe they 

 breed as they are always paired by the middle of May. (/. H. 

 Fleming.) This bird so closely resembles others of its family that 



