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{Chamberlain.) Not common at Scotch Lake, York Co., N.B. 

 {W.H.Moore.) Rare summer visitor in Quebec. {Dionne.) Tran- 

 sient visitor at Montreal, scarce ; this bird is said to be plentiful 

 at St. Jerome, 33. miles north of Montreal. {Wintle.) 



A common summer resident at Ottawa. {Ottawa Naturalist, 

 Vol. V.) Fairly common in Muskoka ; I have not met with it in 

 Parry Sound district. {J. H.Fleming!) Common from the Geor- 

 gian Bay to Lake Erie in most retired localities. {W. E. Saun- 

 ders^ North to Norway House, foot of Lake Winnipeg. i^Dr. 

 R. Bell.) A common summer resident in Manitoba, arriving early 

 in May. {Thompson-Seton). Very common in thick woods at 

 Manitoba House, Manitoba L^ke, and westward along Lake Win- 

 nipegoosis, nesting in the poplar woods in June, 1881. During the 

 day many specimens were seen lying at full length, and perfectly 

 'flat, lengthwise on the branches. {Macoun.) Not seen nor heard 

 anywhere on the prairie. {Spreadborough.) 



Breeding Notes. — Common in central Ontario in rocky 

 uneven ground, partially wooded. I noticed it in a plantation of 

 small oaks near the canal, Wolfe Island, opposite Kingston, but 

 it is not common in level sections of the country. It arrives 

 earlier in the spring than the night hawk, and I have heard its 

 " call " as early as the end of April, and as late as September. It 

 is nowhere commoner than among the Thousand Islands. On 

 some of the larger of these it breeds, returning to the same 

 vicinity year after year. On one island, among ferns, and second 

 growth trees I came across the eggs three times. They are laid 

 in pairs on the bare ground without a vestige of nest, generally 

 among the trees. I have found them on the 9th and i6th of 

 June, but two years ago I saw two eggs that were said to have 

 been found on the 8th May. This bird leaves Ontario nearly 

 a month later than the nighthawk, at least many do. {Rev. C.J. 

 Young.) 



Fifteen years ago this bird could be heard any evening on the 

 outskirts of Toronto, but of late years it has become scarce. I 

 found a set of two beautiful eggs of this species at Rosedale, 

 Toronto, May 24th, 1889. There was no nest and the eggs were 

 laid on dead leaves on the ground in a wood. On the evening of 

 June i8th, 1894, Mr. Menzies drove me from Woodlands, Mani- 

 toba, to Shoal Lake, and we were astonished at the number of 

 whip-poor-wills calling in the woods at the sides of the trail. {W. 

 Raine.) 



