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rootlets. Eggs 4, white, slightly sprinkled at the larger end with 

 brown. (G. R. White.) Mr. Ottomar Reinecke, of Buffalo, has 

 taken several sets of this species in the Niagara district, Ont. I 

 have found a set of four that he collected at Sherkstown, Welland 

 county. The nest was built in a tussock of grass one foot from the 

 ground. (W. Raine.) I met with a nest near Lansdowne, Leeds 

 county. June 2nd, 1892. It was located in a rocky place among 

 branches and ferns near some large woods. It was a somewhat 

 loosely built structure of weeds, leaves and dry grass, lined with 

 some fibres and black hair hardly 12 inches above the ground and 

 well concealed. (Rev. C. J. Young.) 



680. Tolmie Warbler. 



Oporornis tolmiei (Towns.) Ridgway. 1902. 



A single specimen of this species was secured in the Rocky moun- 

 tains in August, near Chief mountain. {Coues.) I saw a few in 

 the Cypress hills, Sask., May 31st, 1905 but none were collected. 

 Bishop found it common there in families from July 25th to 30th 

 in 1906. {A. C. Bent.) Quite common in the brush along the upper 

 branches of Swift Current creek in the east end of the 'Cypress hills> 

 Sask. ; a nest was taken on June 25th, 1894, it was placed under the 

 root of a turned-up tree on a few dead sticks about six inches from 

 the ground and contained four eggs nearly hatched ; nest very bulky, 

 composed of reeds, lined with a little horse hair and dry grass; on 

 June nth, 1895, this species was taken at Wood mountain post, 

 Sask., and seen at Medicine Lodge, near the 49th parallel a few days 

 later ; very common in all the wooded ravines on the south side of 

 the Cypress hills, a nest was taken on the 26th June along a creek in 

 the hills; seen on the West Bute, Sweet Grass hills and at Waterton 

 lake, on the 49th parallel, in July, 1895; quite common and breed- 

 ing at Banff, Rocky mountains, in the summer of 1891; first seen 

 at Edmonton, Alta., June 3rd, 1897, not common, found chiefly 

 along the high banks back of the river where there is plenty of dead 

 brush, they breed here without doubt; observed from Lesser Slave 

 lake to Peace River Landing in June, 1903; seen in the foothills 

 south of Crow Nest pass; seen at Revelstoke, B.C., May 21st, 1890; 

 they soon became common close to the ground and commenced to 

 breed, later they were found at Deer Park and Robson, on the 



