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do on Mount Royal near Montreal. {Rev. C.J. Youtig.) On June 

 20th, 1893, ^t Long Lake, Manitoba, I found a nest and two eggs 

 of this bird. The nest was like a large wood pewee'sand saddled 

 on to the limb of a tree eight feet from the ground. {W. Raine.) 



MUSEUM SPECIMENS. 



Six ; three taken at Banff, Rocky Mountains, one at Revel- 

 stoke, B.C., one at Chilliwack, B.C., and one at Victoria, Van- 

 couver Island, all by Mr. Spreadborough. 



Two sets of three eggs each, both taken at Wolfville, N.S., by 

 Mr. H. Tufts. One was taken on June 6th, 1898. The nest was 

 on a spreading horizontal branch of a spruce 25 feet from the 

 ground and about three feet from the trunk. It was composed ot 

 twigs and small vines with rootlets. The other was taken. June 

 17th, 1894. It was on a spreading fir limb about 30 feet from the 

 ground. The nest was composed of twigs lined with grass. 



461. Wood Pewee. 



Contopus virens (Linn.) Cab. 1855. 



Audubon, Vol. I., p. 233, records it (probably erroneously) from 

 Labrador. (Packard^ I am inclined to believe that this is the 

 bird that Mr. Reeks names Sayornus phaebe and also the same that 

 Mr. Turner referred to and that Mr. Packard is in error in.refferr- 

 ing it to Contopus richardsonii. {Macoun.) 



Common summer resident in Nova Scotia. {Downs) Shot in 

 Brackley PoinJ; woods. Prince Edward Island, August 22nd, 1888. 

 {Macoun.) Not common, though now and then met with, in cer- 

 tain localities in Prince Edward Island. {Dwight.) Common 

 summer resident in New Brunswick. {Chamberlain.) Tolerably 

 common summer resident at Scotch Lake, York Co., N.B. Nests 

 built on horizontal limbs from 10 to 50 feet from the ground. {W.H. 

 Moore.) Heard in the valley of the Restigouche, N.B, {Brittain 

 & Cox) Summer resident in Quebec. {Dionn£) Common sum- 

 mer resident around Montreal ; breeds in Mount Royal Park. 

 {Wintle) 



Common summer resident in the Ottawa district. {Ottawa Na- 

 turalist, Vol. V.) A common breeding species in Muskoka and 

 Parry Sound districts. (/. H. Fleming) Rather rare in Algon- 

 quin Park, Ont. Only a few specimens seen in two months in 

 1900. {Spyeadborough) A tolerably common summer resident of 



