696 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA. 



only seen at Carlton House, on the banks of the Saskatchewan, 

 where it breeds. (Richardson.) 



Breeding Notes. — ^A nest built in a small fir six feet from the 

 ground and containing two young birds and three hatched eggs, dis- 

 covered near Ottawa, on June 7th, 1903. It was a large nest of 

 branches, ten inches in diameter, and lined with bark, grass and 

 leaves. (Garneau.) A nest found near Beechwood cemetery, 

 Ottawa, was built in a brier patch ; the nest was a large bulky struc- 

 ture of twigs, weed-stalks, dead leaves, strips of bark and fibrous 

 roots, lined with fine grass; it contained four greenish white eggs 

 marked with reddish-brown dots. (G. R. White.) 



CCLXVII. SALPINCTES Cabanis. 1847. 



706. Rock Wren. 



Salpinctes obsoletus ohsoletus (Say) Cab. 1847. 



One male of this species was seen in the east end of the Cypress 

 hills, Sask., June 26th, 1894; it was also taken at Calgary, Alta., in 

 August, 1885; a pair of these birds was noticed on June 14th, 1895, 

 in the " bad lands," on Rocky creek, south of Wood raountain; the 

 species was common along Milk river, and breeding in numbers at 

 Castellated rocks, Alta., in Jtily, 1895; saw one iadividual at Prairie 

 creek, northwest of Edmonton, Alta., June 29th, 1898; rather 

 common along the railway at Spence Bridge, B.C., in May, 1889; it 

 was evidently breeding; common and breeding on rocky hillsides at 

 Osoyoos lake, B.C., in June, 1905. (Spreadborough.) Migrant on 

 Vancouver island and at Sumas. (Lord.) Rather common about 

 Ashcroft; breeds. (Streator.) Common east of the Coast range; 

 one specimen taken by me at Burrard inlet, in 1884. (Fannin.) 

 Only once seen and shot, in November, 1889, at ChilUwack, BC. 

 (Brooks.) Found about Ashcroft and northward to C^che creek, 

 B.C. : also at Kamloops, where one was nesting in a " section" house, 

 ten feet from the railroad tracks. (Rhoads.) 



CCLXVIII. THRYOTHORUS Vieillot. 181 6. 



718. Carolina Wren. 



Thryothorus ludovicianus ludovicianus (Lath.) Bonap. 1838. 

 One specimen of this species lived for a month or two in the winter 

 of 1890-91 in the town of Forest, Ont., and was eventually shot in 



