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station at Davis Inlet ; Audubon states that few were seen by him 

 in Labrador. {Packard) An abundant summer visitor in Nova 

 Scotia. Comes when the red maple is in bloom. {Downs.) 

 Rather common at Baddeck and other parts of Cape Breton Islandi 

 August, 1898. {Macoun.) Not observed but undoubtedly occurs on 

 Prince Edward Island. Mr. Earle showed me a stuffed specimen. 

 {Dwight.) An occasional summer resident at St. John, N.B. 

 {Chamberlain.) Summer resident, but not common ; breeds at 

 Scotch Lake, York Co., N.B. {W.H.Moore.) Taken at Beau- 

 port ; a common summer resident in Quebec. {Dionfie.) Seen 

 from May 27th to August 12th, 1858, in Argenteuil Co., Que. 

 {D'Urban.) Summer resident at Montreal; common. Breeds in 

 the city gardens and in Mount Royal Park, but their nests are not 

 often found on account of their diminutiveness. On their arrival 

 in Montreal in spring the flowers of the wild gooseberry and 

 lilac bushes are their favorite resorts and later on they frequent 

 horse-chestnut blossoms, wild columbine and cultivated flowers. 

 {Wintle.) 



Common summer resident at Ottawa. A nest with two fresh 

 eggs was taken July 12th, 1890, by Messrs. W. E. & F. A. Saunders. 

 {Ottawa Naturalist., Vol. V.) Plentiful during migration in Mus- 

 koka and Parry Sound districts. At Emsdale, the males arrive 

 soon after the 15th of May, the females a few days later ; I think 

 some go further north but a great many remain to breed. (/. H. 

 Fleming) Not common in Algonquin Park, Ont., only three 

 observed from May 25th to June 17th, 1500. {Spreadborough) 

 Common at Kew Beach, Toronto. Several pairs visit my garden 

 every summer and feed on the flowers of the nasturtiums and 

 scarlet-runners. {W.Rains.) This species is a common summer 

 resident around Winnipeg and westward in diminishing numbers. 

 Macoun took it, at the head of Lake Winnipegoosis, Aug. i6th, 

 1 88 1. {Thompson-Seton) We obtained specimens of this species 

 on the plains of the Saskatchewan, and Mr. Drummond found one 

 of its nests near the source of the Athabasca River. This nest 

 was composed principally of the down of the anemone, bound 

 together with a few stalks of moss and bits of lichen. It ranges 

 in summer as far north as Lat. 57° and may go even further. 

 {Richardson) 



Breeding Notes. — Generally distributed in Ontario. Breeds 

 commonly about the middle of June. One nest I saw was on the 

 outermost branch of a beech. The eggs were destroyed by black- 



