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B.C.; three at Chilliwack, B.C.; three at Victoria and Comox, Van- 

 couver Island, all by Mr. Spreadborough. 



466a. Alder Flycatcher. 



Empidonax traillii alnorum. Brewst. 1895. 



Not a very common summer migrant in Newfoundland ; fre- 

 quents woods in the neighbourhood of houses. (^Reeks.) A 

 rather common summer resident in Nova Scotia. {Downs.) Com- 

 mon in margins of woods at Baddeck and Margaree, Cape Breton 

 Island, July, 1898 ; one taken at Mount Stewart, Prince Edward 

 Island, July nth, 1888. {Macoun.) A few seen at Tignish, Prince 

 Edward Island, in their favourite haunts, the alders. {Dwigkt.) 

 An uncommon summer resident in New Brunswick. {Chamber- 

 lain.) A tolerably common summer resident at Scotch Lake, 

 York Co., N.B. {W. H. Moore!) Taken at Beauport ; a summer 

 resident in Quebec. {Dionne.) A scarce summer resident in the 

 Montreal district ; breeds in Mount Royal Park, where I have 

 found their nests with eggs from June 19th to July 30th, for several 

 years past. {Wintle) A common summer resident in the Ottawa 

 district. {Ottawa Naturalist, Vol. V.) Rather rare near London, 

 but more common to the noirth and east. {W. E. Saunders) Not 

 common in Algonquin Park, Ont. ; only a few seen on the 

 Madawaska River below Cache Lake. {Spreadborough!) I took 

 a male at Emsdale in Muskoka, on May 29th, 1899. Mr. Kay has 

 taken the nest of this species at Port Sydney, in the same district. 

 {J. H. Fleming!) One specimen taken and others seen at Lesser 

 Slave River, Athabasca, May 23rd, 1888. {J. M. Macoun!) First 

 seen May 26th, 1897, at Edmonton, Alta. ; common by June 2nd. 

 It is always found in the clumps of willow and alder and never in 

 heavy timber. {Spreadborough!) Flycatchers referred to alnorum, 

 were several times observed by us at Norway House, Keewatin, 

 but we were unable to secure one. {Prebles.) We first found this 

 species at Fort Selkirk, where the Pelly and Lewes unite to form 

 the Yukon, in Lat. 62° 50', and hardly lost it again until we 

 reached Circle city ; later I heard one 15 mfles below Fort Yukon, 

 Alaska, August 21st, 1899. {Bishop.) 



Breeding Notes. — The variety recently called the "alder 

 flycatcher" is the species usually met with along the St. Lawrence 

 and northward. I would observe that this name is very appro- 

 priate. I have commonly met with the bird in moist, low situa- 



