CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS. ■ 573 



€26. Philadelphia Vireo. 



Vireo philadelphicus (Cass.) Baird. 1858. 



One individual obtained from Moose Factory, James Bay, June 

 2nd, i860, by Drexler. {Packard!) A rare summer visitor around 

 Ottawa. {Ottawa Naturalist, Vol. V.) I have met with this bird 

 two or three times. Once I found the nest close to Lansdowne 

 station in Leeds Co., Ont. This was in June, 1896. It was built 

 in a bush of Spircea salicifolia, was prehensile like the other vireo's 

 but not so neatly or closely constructed. It contained one vireo's 

 ^g% and two cowbird's. The egg is identical with, but smaller 

 than that of the red-eyed. This nest was in a damp pasture field 

 where there were swampy places overgrown with alders and 

 Spircea. {Rev.fi. J. Young.) A not uncommon bird in the Parry 

 Sound district. I believe they breed as they are always paired 

 by the middle of May. (/. H. Fleming.) This bird so closely 

 resembles others of its family that it is difficult to decide as to 

 its relative abundance at Toronto. I seldom fail to see one or 

 more specimens each season. (/. Hughes-Samuel.) A regular 

 migrant, though never yet found to be common. Two or three 

 are all that any one observer, will usually note in one migration. 

 {W. E. Saunders.) Seen as a passing migrant at Guelph, Ont. 

 {A. B. Khigh.) 



A peculiar song heard on Hill River, Keewatin, July 8th, was 

 probably the song of this species, but I was unable to secure the 

 bird. {E. A. Prebles.) Although only two specimens were taken 

 it undoubtedly breeds about Pembina on the 49th parallel, in the 

 heavy timber of the river bottoms, but I was not so fortunate as 

 to discover its nest, a circumstance the more to be regretted, 

 since neither the nest nor eggs have yet come to light'. {Coues.) 

 Summer resident of thickets in Manitoba; nest found on Duck 

 Mountain. {Thompson-Seton.) Not uncommon and breeding at 

 Edmonton, Alta., in May, 1897. Not observed in any other 

 locality west of Manitoba. {Spreadborougk.) 



Breeding Notes. — On June 9th, 1884, near Fort Pelly, on the 

 upper Assiniboine, I found a vireo nesting in a small bluff of poplar 

 and willow ; the chosen site was in the twigs of a willow some 10 

 feet from the ground ; the nest was the usual suspended cup formed 

 of fine grass and strips of birch bark; on the ground immediately 

 below it was another nest of precisely the same make and ma- 



