CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS. 617 



Breeding Notes. — On June i8th, 1900, Mr. C. E. Whittaker, 

 found a nest of this rare warbler at Peel river, within the Arctic 

 circle. It was built in the grass on the ground and contained six 

 eggs; on June 22nd, 1902, Mr. Dippie found a nest and five eggs 

 at Banff, Rocky mountains. (W. Raine.) On May 25th, 1906, I 

 found a nest of this species near Madoc, Ont., in a hummock of 

 marsh fern and moss among small tamaracks and cedars and well 

 concealed under the dead fern. The nest was small, of dry grass and 

 moss lined with finer grass. The eggs were five in number, white 

 with a zone of purplish red specks around the larger end. {Rev. C. 

 J. Young.) A nest of this species was found on June 13th, 1897, on 

 the edge of a wood in a rather damp situation. This was com- 

 pletely hidden by over-hanging grass and small aspen trees ; it was 

 sunken in the ground and was composed of grass built with a fev/ 

 horse hairs. There were five eggs in it almost hatched. Another 

 nest of the same species was found on July ist near the edge of a 

 large bluff, this was hidden as much as the somewhat scanty veget 

 ation would allow and was hidden from above by young aspens. 

 There were four fresh eggs in the nest which were between 1 5 and 1 6 

 mm. long and 12 mm. wide, they were white, thickly marked about 

 the larger end with very fine slaty-gray and somewhat large brown 

 spots. A third nest examined after the birds had left was in almost 

 exactly the same situation as the first. {Criddle.) 



646a. Lutescent Warbler, 



Helminlhophila celata lutescens Ridgw. 1878. 



Saw one individual at Edmonton, Alta., May 5th, 1897, after- 

 wards the species was occasionally seen so that I think a few re- 

 mained to breed; breeding in numbers at Banff, Rocky mountains, 

 in June, 1891 ; shot in Eagle pass, west of Revelstoke, B.C. ; breed- 

 ing in the pass, but not seen east of the Columbia in 1890; only one 

 observed at Trail, B.C., in June, 1902; first seen at Penticton, B.C. 

 in 1903, on April 24th, common by the 29th ; first noted at Elko, 

 B.C., May i6th, 1904, and at Sidley, May 13th, 1905, common along 

 the Hope trail in July of that year ; abundant in the woods at 

 Hastings, but not so common at Agassiz, B.C., in May, 1889; a few 

 .seen at Chilliwack, B.C., in the spring of 1902; and spring of 1906; 

 a common summer resident on Vancouver island; first seen on 



