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Macoun.) A rare migrant in spring at Quebec. (Dionne.) I con- 

 sider this species an irregular spring migrant, and have not met with 

 them here in the autumn. (WinUe.) 



A moderately common migrant in the vicinity of Ottawa. (Ottawa 

 Naturalist, Vol. V.) I have seldom seen this bird in eastern Ontario. 

 I found this to be the commonest warbler by far in Magdalen islands 

 in June, 1897; I found four nests all built in bushy spruce trees at 

 from two to five feet from the ground ; they are late birds to arrive 

 there and do not commence to build until the middle of June; I 

 noticed that the eggs were almost all blotched with dark umber 

 brown as well as spotted and speckled like the last species. {Rev. 

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

 (/. H. Fleming.) The black-polls seem very local at Toronto, as, 

 though I have found them decidedly abundant during the last two 

 years in a particularly nice little patch of tall willows near the lake 

 shore, I do not know of any one else having noted a single specimen. 

 May 15th is the earliest date on which I have seen them — three males 

 appearing then, and increasing in numbers till 26th May, when the 

 first females were seen; by 2nd of June all had passed on; my 

 earliest fall note is 27th August, and from this date on the numbers 

 daily increase till the trees are almost aUve with their weak call- 

 notes. While with us in the spring the males keep up their some- 

 what insect-like notes at intervals during the whole day, as they 

 glide from branch to branch — not dashing and darting about with 

 the vim that is so characteristic of many members of this family. 

 (/. Hughes-Samuel.) A passing migrant at Guelph, Ont. ; not com- 

 mon. {A. B. Klugh.) Abundant migrant in fall but not very 

 common in spring at London, Ont. (W. E. Saunders.) Observed 

 several on the east coast of James bay in 1904. (Spreadborough.) 

 Taken at Fort Churchill, Hudson bay. (Clarke.) At Oxford House, 

 June 30th to July 4th they were rather common; on July loth we 

 noticed a pair in a thicket that bordered Hayes river, a few miles 

 above York Factory, and on arriving at that post we again found 

 the birds rather common; at Fort Churchill, where they were also 

 common we took another specimen, July 24th, 1901. (E. A. Preble.) 



One specimen of this species was procured at Wood Mountain on 

 the 49th parallel by Dr. G. M. Dawson, Geologist of the English 

 Commission. (Coues.) A rare migrant in Manitoba; probably 



