CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS. 677 



thickets around London, Ont. {W. E. Saunders.) Common smn- 

 mer resident at Guelph, Ont.; arrives about May nth, leaves about 

 August 28th. (A. B. Klugh.) 



A summer resident of wooded hillsides in Manitoba, but its habits 

 are not very well known; has been found more frequently to the 

 north of Manitoba. {E. T. Seton.) A rare summer resident at 

 Aweme, Manitoba; arrives about May 20th and leaves about last 

 of August. (Criddle.) A common migrant and tolerably common 

 breeding species under favourable conditions in Manitoba. (Atkin- 

 son.) A single specimen of this bird was killed in June at Cumber- 

 land House; it was in a dense thicket of alder, perched near the 

 ground. (Richardson.) One specimen secured at Grand Rapids and 

 another at Chemawawin, Saskatchewan river. (^Nutting.) One 

 specimen taken at Moose Factory, James Bay, by Mr. Walter Hay- 

 don, in the summer of 188 1. (£. A. Preble.) Not observed any- 

 where west of Manitoba except at Edmonton, Alta., where a few 

 were observed and one taken May 29th, 1897. (Spreadborough.) 



Breeding Notes. — June 12th, 1902, I found this bird nesting at 

 Rice lake, Ont. ; nest in a cavity of a fallen tree root in deep woods. 

 (W. Raine.) Nests near Ottawa and at Lake Nominingue, 100 miles 

 north of Ottawa, in June and July ; it is built on the ground in the 

 woods, and made of dried leaves, Uned with fine grass, strips of bark 

 and hairs ; the walls are thin for a nest made of leaves. (Garneau.) 



On the 28th of May, when passing the "old root" of a fallen tree 

 I discovered the newly made nest of a small bird, which at first I 

 thought might be that of a mourning warbler, whose scolding notes 

 I heard near by; on the 5th June, when I thought the set of eggs 

 would be deposited I revisited the place ; on the nest sat the mother 

 bird, and there she remained until I almost touched her with my 

 hand, then she flushed out, making some attempts to draw off my 

 attention, and uttered a few sharp "chips" and I saw at once that 

 she was a Canadian warbler ; the nest then contained five eggs, and 

 incubation had begun; the nest was placed in a cavity among the 

 rocks, only a few inches above the more level earth, and was com- 

 posed of dry leaves, strips of bark, and other fine vegetable fibres, 

 and hned with some long horse hair ; when placed side by side with 

 that of M. varia previously described, I made this comparison of 

 the nests and their sets of eggs, after the latter are blown ; the nests — 



