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Port Sydney, Muskoka, by Mr. Kay, in 1887; they bred there in 

 1891; reported rare at Beaumaris in 1897 by Mr. Tavernier. 

 (y. H. Fleming?) Fairly common summer resident at Guelph, 

 Ont. Arrives about April 2:th and leaves about October 8th. 

 {^A. B. Klugh.) Common summer resident about London, Ont., 

 arriving early, sometimes in March, and averaging April i6th. 

 Although so common at London it is much less so in north 

 Bruce, although it appears to be more common now in that dis- 

 trict than it was 10 years ago. The nests are placed both on the 

 ground,. in shrubs, and occasionally in brush heaps. Two broods 

 are often reared in a season usually consisting of four in the first 

 and three in the second. {W.E.Saunders.) This is one of the 

 species which apparently enters Ontario from the southwest, for 

 on looking at the dates of its arrival at London and Chatham we 

 find it is always there before it reaches Hamilton, while at Ottawa 

 Mr. White has not met with it all. {Mcllwraith.) A common 

 summer resident at Penetanguishene, Ont. {A. F. Young.) 



A common summer resident in sheltered scrub lands in south- 

 ern Manitoba and northwest to Carberry. {Thompson-Seton.) This 

 bird was not uncommon about Pembina, where it was breeding in 

 June. A nest was taken July ilth containing two eggs that 

 belonged in it, together with three that did not, having been de- 

 posited by the cowbirds. {Coues.) 



MUSEUM SPECIMENS. 



Four; one purchased with the Holman collection in 1885; one 

 taken at Ottawa in August, 1890, by Mr. F. A. Saunders; one 

 taken at Toronto by Mr. S. Herring; and one taken at London, 

 Ont., by Mr. W. E. Saunders, May ist, 1892. 



Two sets of eggs; one of four taken at Toronto June 1st, 1890, 

 by Mr. W. Raine; and one of four eggs taken at Komoka, Ont., 

 June 8th, 1894, by Mr. W. E. Saunders. Nest composed of grass 

 and weeds lined with hair, placed on a knoll covered with grow- 

 ing plants. 



588. Arctic Towhee. 



Pipilo maculatus arcticus (Swains.) Coues. 1872. 

 Along the 49th parallel this form becomes established at least 

 as far east as the Mouse (Souris) River, where I secured a speci- 

 men in September. On the boundary they were not met with 



