CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS. 713 



Common on Moose river from Missinabi, Ont., to Moose Factory, 

 James bay. (Spreadborough.) Perhaps a permanent resident in New- 

 foundland. (Reeks.) One seen on the Humber river, Newfound- 

 land, August 1 8th, 1899. (Louis H. Porter.) 



A fairly common resident at Halifax, N.S. ; associated with the 

 chickadees. (Downs.) Five single specimens were seen on Sable 

 island in July and August, 1899. There were no signs of nesting 

 and in no case were two seen together on any part of the island. 

 The one located at the main station entered the houses and caught 

 flies in the windows and twice it perched on the writer's head and 

 sprung at the flies in the window from that perch; besides catching 

 flies it would hunt up and down the telephone poles and on the fence 

 posts and boards for other food; not uncommon at Baddeck and 

 Margaree, Cape Breton island, July, 1898; a few were noticed in 

 spruce trees at Brackley point, Prince Edward island, 26th June, 

 1888. (Macoun.) One seen on July 14th and another September 

 8th, 1902, on Sable island, N.S. ; one seen May i6th, 1904; numbers 

 seen after a gale, November 5th, 1906; seen January 20th, 1907, 

 and all through the following autumn. (/. Boutelier.) I had 

 about given up seeing this species at all when I came upon several 

 at Souris, Prince Edward island, probably a family. (Dwight.) 

 Usually an uncommon resident at St. John, N.B. (Chamberlain.) 

 A common permanent resident at Scotch Lake, York county, N.B. 

 (W. H. Moore.) Quite common in the Restigouche valley, N.B. ; 

 young just beginning to fly in July. (Brittain & Cox.) A tolerably 

 common summer resident on the Magdalen islands. (Bishop.) A 

 permanent and common resident in eastern Quebec. Taken at 

 Beauport. (Dionne.) A common transient visitant at Montreal; 

 probably a few breed and winter there. (Wintle.) 



A common resident at Ottawa. (Ottawa Naturalist, Vol. V.) In 

 the years 1887 and 1888 this bird appeared to be unusually common 

 in Renfrew county, Ont. In the former year I met with four nests. 

 Two of these were in partly decayed poplar trees; one about 10 feet 

 and the other about 30 feet from the ground. The eggs are laid the 

 second week in May at latest, as on 21st of that month I found the 

 young just hatched. A peculiarity of the nest hole is that the 

 orifice is smeared with rosin from the neighbouring spruce or pine 

 trees, carried by the bird. I did not notice any nests in the pine 

 or spruce themselves. About Lansdowne, Leeds co., the bird is 



