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the ground, preferably under something — the bottom rail of a 

 fence or a hole in some grassy bank. Young were just beginning 

 to fly June 23rd and a week later nests with fresh eggs indicated 

 a second laying. {Dwigki.) Very common summer resident in 

 New Brunswick. {Chamierlain.) An abundant summer resident 

 at Scotch Lake, York Co., N.B. {W.H.Moore.) Very common 

 in the Restigouche valley, N.B. (Bnttain & Cox) Breeds, but 

 is irregularly distributed on the Magdalen Islands. {Bishop) Of 

 general and uniform distribution on the shores and islands of the 

 Gulf of St. Lawrence. {Brewster) Abundant in summer at Lake 

 Mistassini, northern Quebec. (/. M. Macoun) Taken at Beau- 

 port; common summer resident in eastern Quebec. {Dionne) An 

 abundant summer resident at Montreal. Breeds in Mount Royal 

 park. I have found their nests, with eggs, from May 17th to 

 June 19th, and have observed them here from March 29th to 

 October 25th; and on one occasion I saw two here — Dec. 24th, 

 1882. {Wintle) 



A common summer and autumn migrant. A few remain to 

 breed around Ottawa. {Ottawa Naturalist, Vol. V.) I notice 

 that this bird is a common spring and autumn migrant in eastern 

 Ontario. Numbers of them arrive in the latter part of Septemb-r 

 and are met with commonly in clearings and stubble fields during 

 October. In the spring they re-appear early in April and con- 

 tinue through the month. A few breed in the cbunty of Renfrew, 

 and I have met with the nest in June. I have not noticed that 

 it breeds along the St. Lawrence, though I have watched forit in 

 suitable localities. ' It breeds sparingly on the Magdalen Islands 

 as well as at Pictou, Nova Scotia. {Rev. C.J. Youn^) A common 

 breeding summer resident in the Parry Sound and Muskoka dis- 

 tricts; very fond of nesting near old bush roads. (/. H. Fleming) 

 A few remain around Toronto every winter. (/. Hughes-Samuel) 

 Abundant everywhere along the Parry Sound Railway within the 

 Algonquin Park, Ont,; young ones were able to fly by June I9thr 

 1900 ; nests were found on the ground near logs and another 

 beneath a tuft of grass on July 15th, igoo. {Spreadborough) Lon- 

 don seems to be nearly the southern limit of this species; here it 

 is rare in summer, but at Bryanston, 15 miles northeast it is fairly 

 common in the same class of woods; and in north Bruce it is 

 quite common. There have been two or three seasons in the last 

 twenty years when it has been noted regularly throughout the 



