6l8 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA. 



April i6th, 1893, and became common in a few days, a nest was 

 taken containing four eggs on May i3tli; nest on the ground built 

 of moss lined with dry grass and hair; quite common at Comox 

 and Nanaimo. (Spreadborough.) 



Five specimens taken at New Westminster and one taken at 

 Mount Lehman on September 15th are typical of the coast form. 

 (Streator.) Chiefly west of the Coast range; a very abundant 

 summer resident on the coast. (Fannin.) More common than 

 the type; a summer resident. (Brooks.) A very abundant sum- 

 mer resident on the Pacific slope of British Columbia. (Rhoads.) 

 Rather rare on Queen Charlotte islands, seen twice at Cumshewa 

 inlet. Three specimens taken at Fort Kenai, Alaska, by Bischoff 

 in May, 1869. (Osgood.) Common at Haines Mission, L3Tin 

 canal, June ist, 1899. (Bishop.) Extending up the Pacific coast 

 this -bird is found as a common summer resident of the wooded 

 southeastern shore of Alaska, where it replaces celata. (Nelson.) 

 Tolerably common about clearings, and in the low growths of firs 

 which border the beaches at the mouths of the streams at Sitka, 

 Alaska. (Grinnell.) Four specimens taken at Sheep creek, and 

 four on Kenai mountains, Alaska, in August, 1901. The species 

 was fairly common along all streams in the timber belt even to 

 its highest limits where it breeds. (Figgins.) Two adults taken 

 at Seldovia, Alaska and one juvenal at Sheep creek. (Anderson.) 



Breeding Notes. — Banff, Rocky mountains, June loth, 1893, 

 in the valley of the Bow river, we flushed a little warbler off its 

 nest and five eggs. This nest was buUt on the ground amongst 

 short herbage growing at the side of a fallen log. As I wished to 

 secure the parent bird to prove the identity of the eggs we did 

 not molest the nest. Next morning my collector brought me a 

 female orange-crowned warbler he had caught with his hand on 

 the nest we found the day previous, so I took my camera along 

 and photographed the nest and the photo-engraving of this nest 

 is to be seen in OUver Davies' "Nests and Eggs of North American 

 Birds," page 431. (W. Ratne.) 



647. Tennessee Warbler. 



Helminthophila peregrina (Wils.) Ridgw. 1882. 

 Obtained by Drexler at Fort George, James bay, in June and 

 July, i860. (Packard.) Rather common at Stewiacke, but never 



