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tain & Cox) Taken at Godbout River ; a rather rare summer 

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

 Montreal district ; breeds on the island of Montreal. {Wintle.) 

 A common summer resident in the Ottawa district. {Ottawa 

 Naturalist, Vol. V.) The most abundant of the small flycatchers 

 in the Muskoka and Parry Sound districts. (/. H. Fleming) Very 

 abundant everywhere in Algonquin Park, Ont., July, igoo. 

 {Spreadborough.) A nest containing well-incubated eggs was col- 

 lected near the south end of Oxford Lake, Keewatin, on the 

 morning of June 30th, the female bird was taken with the eggs. 

 {Prebles) 



Very abundant at Pembina and west to Turtle Mountain, in 

 Lat. 49°, beyond which it was not seen. {Coues.) A very abun- 

 dant summer resident of open groves extending its range through- 

 out the wooded part of the province of Manitoba. (Thompson- 

 Seton) Common at the Grand Rapids of the Saskatchewan. 

 {Nutting) First seen at Indian Head, Assa., May 27th, 1892, 

 later they became fairly common and bred in numbers in the 

 vicinity of Deep Lake ; collected at Medicine Hat and Crane 

 Lake, Assa., in June, 1894; abundant on Old Wives' Creek, Assa., 

 at its mouth. May 24th, 1895 ; this species was seen all the way 

 up Old Wives' Creek and at Wood Mountain Post ; a small fly- 

 catcher was seen at Farwell Creek, Cypress Hills, Assa., which 

 may have been this species ; taken at Canmore, Alta., within the 

 Rocky Mountains, but replaced at Banff by Wright's flycatcher. 

 First seen at Edmonton, Alta., May 12th, 1897, common next 

 day ; in the foothills southwest of Calgary common in July. 

 {Spreadborough) North to Fort Simpson on the Mackenzie ; 

 common. {Ross) 



Breeding Notes. — A bird almost resembling the last, but a 

 trifle smaller. It breeds commonly in the counties of Leeds and 

 Renfrew, selecting a very different locality from traillii for its 

 nest. It is a familiar bird, frequenting orchards and the vicinity 

 of houses, as well as the second growth woods. The nests I 

 have seen resemble a redstart's and were built in the crotch of 

 a maple and of apple trees. They contained four yellowish 

 white eggs which were laid about the end of May, about two weeks 

 earlier than the last. {Rev. C.J. Young) I found it common on 

 my arrival, the ist of June, and during that month secured a large 

 series of specimens, including many nests and eggs, the latter not 



