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terjals ; intending to take this with me on my return I hung it in 

 the tree, but when I came back I found it on the ground, it was 

 again hung as before, and again thrown down, although it had 

 been firmly attached to a twig; this happened several times so 

 that there was little doubt that it was the vireo's doing, but why? 

 I cannot imagine. On June 13th, the vireo began to sit on her 

 four eggs; I shot her and found her to correspond exactly with 

 Coues' description oi philadelpkicus, except that the yellow on the 

 breast was quite bright; the eggs closely resembled those of the 

 red-eyed vireo, but were destroyed by an unfortunate accident 

 before they were accurately measured. {Thompson-Seton.) At 

 Crescent Lake, Assa., June nth, igor, I found the nest and four 

 eggs of this species ; nest of fine strips of bark, grass and fine 

 roots, built in a poplar tree; at Long Lake, Manitoba, on June 

 I2th, 1894, I found a nest and four eggs of this species suspended 

 to the branch of a willow six feet from the ground. {W. Raine.) 



MUSEUM SPECIMENS. 



Three taken in May and June, 1897, ^t Edmonton, Alta., by 

 Mr. W. Spreadborough. 



627. Warbling Vireo 



Vireo gilvus (Vieill.) Bonap. 1838. 



A common summer resident at Halifax, N.S. {Downs.) Not 

 uncommon at Calais on the boundary of New Brunswick. 

 {Chaniberlain^ A rare visitant in summer at Quebec. (Dionne.) 

 A scarce transient visitant at Montreal; I have met with only two 

 specimens of this species which I took on Montreal Island. ( Wintle.) 



An abundant summer resident around Ottawa. (Ottawa Natura- 

 list, Vol. V.) A common summer resident, nesting high up in 

 maple and elm trees in eastern Ontario. (Rev. C. J. Young.) I 

 have taken this species several times at Emsdale, Muskoka dis- 

 trict in May; Mr. Tavernier has taken the species at Beaumaris , 

 Muskoka. {J.H.Fleming.) Abundant along the city streets in 

 London, Ont.; but somewhat less so in the country; eggs usually 

 four, but sometimes only three, nests always high up, not less 

 than 25 feet from the ground, while the red-eyed vireo seldom 

 builds higher than eight feet and usually less; the male bird takes 

 his share of the work of incubating and sings freely while sitting. 

 {W. E. Sattnders) Common summer resident at Guelph, Ont.; 



