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counties of Lanark and Leeds, Ont. ; in the latter it breeds among the 

 Thousand Islands of the St. Lawrence, as I found a nest as late as 

 July, 1894. {Rev. C. J. Young.) A pair taken by Mr. Kay, at Port 

 Sydney, Muskoka, Ont., on May 24th, 1889, is the only record I have 

 for the district. (/. H. Fleming.) Common everyTvhere in the 

 flooded woods at the margins of the lakes in Algonquin park, Ont . 

 Common from Missinabi, Ont. to Hannah river, James bay, and up 

 the west coast of the bay to Raft river. The singing habits of the 

 western form are quite different from the eastern. The former is 

 usually seen perched on a dead twig quite above all the surrounding 

 bushes or on a dead branch of a tall tree, sometimes forty or fifty 

 feet from the ground. The latter is seldom seen except in the 

 thickest of thickets, where I have seen them sing within a foot of 

 the ground. Never have I seen one singling from a dead twig. 

 (Spreadborough.) Breeds commonly around Belmont lake, Peter- 

 borough county, Ont. ; in the fall migration it is sometimes very 

 abundant near Toronto, as was the case from the 12th August to 

 15th September, 1900. (/. Hughes-Samuel.) Common in the 

 migrations at London, Ont. ; a few bred in retired localities. (W . 

 E. Saunders.) Common summer resident at Guelph, Ont. ; arrives 

 about April 30th, and leaves about August 29th. {A. B. Klugh.) 

 I have a set of five eggs that was taken by Mr. Kells, at Listowel, 

 western Ontario, on May 22nd, 1890; the nest was built in. a cavity 

 of a tumed-up tree root in a swamp, (yv. Raine.) 



Breeding Notes. — Nest found on the bank of the Rideau river, 

 near Ottawa ; it was built by the side of a log and composed of moss, 

 old leaves and plant stems, intermixed with black rootlets. Eggs, 

 five, white with reddish-brown spots, mostly at the larger end. 

 {G. R. White.) Near the centre of the woodland, adjoining Wild- 

 wood on the north, is a natural water "runway" where most of 

 the large timber was up-rooted in the terrible wind and ice storm 

 of April, some seven or eight years ago; in one of those up-turned 

 roots, below which there is, in the early season, a deep pool of 

 water, I have on several occasions, in past years, noticed a nest of 

 a water-thrush, and expected this year to take a set of its eggs 

 from a cavity in the same old root, but a delay of several days 

 having occurred after the time when I intended to have visited it 

 for that purpose, I found when I did so on the 28th May, that I 

 was too late, the nest was there, but a glance at the four eggs which 



