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opportunities for studying its notes and habits in the forests of northern 

 New England where I have met with it on many different occasions 

 and during every month of the year excepting April." 



Regulus satrapa Licht. 

 Golden-crowned Kinglet. 



Common summer resident in southern portions. 



Low found this bird "common on Hamilton River between Grand 

 Falls and Sandy Lake; rare to northward; seen May 19th." Bigelow 

 says it is "fairly common in patches of spruce timber as far as Aillik." 

 Macoun records a set of seven eggs from Cartwright taken on June 15, 

 1895. "Nest suspended from a branch of a spruce tree 15 feet from 

 the ground (W. Raine)." 



Regulus calendula (Linn.). 



RUBY-CROWNED KlNGLET. 



Common summer resident in southern portion; May 11 to October 

 11. 



Audubon and Stearns found this bird on the southern coast; Coues 

 found it at Rigolet; Low says it is "very common along Hamilton 

 River between Grand Falls and Sandy Lake." J. M. Macoun says it 

 breeds commonly at Lake Mistassini where Low noted its arrival on 

 May 11th; Spreadborough found it at Fort George, James Bay, and 

 it was common at Richmond Gulf. 



[Polioptila caerulea (Linn.). Blue-Gray Gnatcatcher. — Audubon 

 ('39, p. 551) says: "A pair were observed in one of the valleys of Labrador." 

 It seems improbable that this bird of the Austral zones should have wandered 

 thus widely. As Audubon does not state that he saw the bird himself it is 

 possible that a kinglet was confused with this species.] 



[Hylocichla mustelina Gmel. Wood Thrush. — Stearns ('83, p. 9) re- 

 ported that this species was "heard" by him ten miles up the Esquimaux 

 River in late July. This record was discredited by Ridgway and by J. A. 

 Allen, and was omitted by Stearns from his " Bird life in Labrador." It is 

 probable that the song heard was that of the Hermit Thrush.] 



