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and quills from the western porcupine. (Spreadborough.) Com- 

 mon in the Okanagan district of B.C. (Brooks.) Two examples 

 were taken at Vernon, B.C., and others were seen at Nelson. They 

 may be considered as neither rare nor abundant in British Columbia. 

 (Rhoads.) . Taken at Vernon, Lake Okanagan, by Mr. A. C. Brooks 

 in 1898. (Fannin.) 



646. Orange-crowned Warbler. 



Helminthophila celatacelata (Say) Ridgw. 1882. 



Of rare occurrence at St. John, N.B., but has never been record- 

 ed at Scotch Lake. (W. H. Moore.) One example taken at Beau- 

 port near Quebec, in 1890. (Dionne.) A rare transient visitant at 

 Montreal. I shot a male specimen of this warbler, May 21st, 1890, 

 on the spur of Mount Royal and it is the only one of the kind I have 

 met with here. (Wintte.). A casual in the vicinity of Ottawa; a 

 male was shot by Mr. E. F. G. White, Sept. 27th, 1885, near the 

 eastern end of the city. (Ottawa Naturalist, Vol. V.) Among the 

 first warblers to arrive in the spring of 1906 at Madoc, Ont. I first 

 saw it searching for insects on the buds of poplar trees that fringe 

 a tamarac and cedar swamp. This was on May 14th. (Rev. C. J. 

 Young.) Regular migrant at Toronto, Ont., rare; I have records 

 of only eight in eight years. (/. H. Fleming.) During several 

 seasons of careful observations I have only once met with a small 

 party of these warblers; this was on 12th May, 1900 when I was 

 fortunate in obtaining two specimens, one of which I was surprised 

 to find on dissecting was a female. The plumage of this bird is very 

 plain and but for the frequency of its call note or "chep" might 

 easily pass unnoticed ; and even when its presence is detected it is 

 so remarkably active and darts so rapidly from tree to tree that its 

 capture is by no means certain. (/. Hughes-Samuel.) As a strag- 

 gler I have met with this bird on only two occasions, the latter 

 being on the nth of May, 1886 when a specimen was taken at 

 Hamilton Beach by Mr. K. C. Mcllwraith. (Mcllwraith.) A re- 

 gular migrant at London, Ont. ; but never common. (W. E. Saun- 

 ders.) A few seen on the east coast of James bay, July, 1904. 

 (Spreadborough.) One was taken in a willow thicket at York 

 Factory, July i6th, 1901, and the species was again noted near Pine 

 lake, September 13th and at Duck point, Playgreen lake, Septembpr 

 19th. (E. A. Preble.) 



