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Renfrew, where I have seen it. {Rev. C. J. Young.) Mr. Kay 

 gives 1887 as the year of its first appearance at Port Sydney, 

 Muskoka district ; Mr. Tavernier refers to it as becoming increas- 

 ingly common at Beaumaris. (/. H. Fleming) A common 

 summer resident throughout southern Ontario ; but quite rare in 

 North Bruce, where I only observed three specimens in four 

 weeks. ( W. E. Saunders.) Abundant at Pembina, the only locality 

 where itwas found on the International Boundary,Lat.49°; several 

 nests with eggs in them were taken during the latter part of the 

 month of June. {Coues.) A common summer resident of open 

 woodlands in the south and west of Manitoba. (Thompson- Seton.) 

 One seen flying across Red River about midway between 

 Winnipeg and West Selkirk, June 14th, 1901. {Prebles.) In 

 the spring of 1892 many specimens were seen at Indian Head, 

 Assa., and nearly all remained to breed ; others at Medicine Hat, 

 Assa., in May, 1894 ; and others were taken on Old Wives' Creek, 

 Assa., in May, 1895. None were observed south or west of the 

 above point. Arrived at Edmonton, Alta., on May 20th, 1897 ; 

 later many were seen flying north but a few remained to breed. 

 They nested in tall poplars over 30 feet from the ground, yet nests 

 were found in bushes six feet from the ground. {Spreadborough.) 

 This handsome bird is a regular and not uncommon visitor between 

 the forks of the Saskatchewan ; frequently seen and heard in 

 the thickets where it hangs its pretty nest. {Coubeaux) This bird 

 ranges through the central part of the Northwest Territories up 

 to Lat. 55°, beyond which it does not seem to go. {Richardson.) 

 Breeding Notes. — I found a nest of this bird June 7th, 1890, 

 at Dorval, built in the top of a thin bush, within reach of hand 

 from the ground, and containing five fresh eggs, but as a rule 

 their nests are built here hanging to branches of large trees, 

 twenty or thirty feet above the ground. I saw this species feeding 

 on the ground, an unusual position to find the oriole in, as they 

 generally confine themselves to the trees and bushes when feeding. 

 {Wint/e.) Breeds throughout Manitoba and in Assiniboia as far 

 west as Crescent Lake. {IV. Raine.) Builds near the end of a long 

 branch, elm tree preferred at Ottawa. Nest composed of the flax 

 of silk weed, willow down, wool string, lined with lint, wiry grass 

 and horse hair; eggs five, white with a faint tinge of blue, spotted, 

 scrawled and streaked with lilac and brown, mostly towards the 

 larger end. {G.R.White.) On June 25th, 1882, on the north 

 bank of the eastern slough, I found a Baltimore oriole's nest in 



