CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS. 575 



prefers city shade trees and orchards to the bush ; arrives about 

 May 8th, leaves about September 20th. {A. B. Klugk.) Observed 

 in abundance at Pembina, on the 49th parallel, and again found a1 

 the opposite extremity of the line, the specimen captured in the 

 Rocky Mountains, being probably the slight variety swaitisoni 

 at Pembina the warbling vireo was in full song and breeding ir 

 June; a nest found on the nth of that month was empty; but in 

 this latitude few of the small insectivorous birds appear to lay be- 

 fore the third week in June. (Coues.) Summer resident of wood- 

 lands in Manitoba; common on the south slope of Riding Moun- 

 tain and west side of Duck Mountain. (Tkompson-Seton.) First 

 seen at Indian Head, Assa., June 6th, 1892, after this date il 

 became common and commenced to breed; first arrivals at Medi- 

 cine Hat, Assa., May 17th, 1894, evidently intending to breed 

 seen along Old Wives' Creek,Assa., in June, 1895; along St. Mary's 

 River and at Waterton Lake, in Alberta, in July, 1895. {Spread- 

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MUSEUM SPECIMENS 



Eight; one purchased with the Holman collection in 1885; two 

 taken at Ottawa in May, 1888, by Prof. Macoun; one taken a1 

 Ottawa, May 25th, 1891, by Dr. F.A.Saunders; one taken at Indiar 

 Head, Assa., June 14th, 1892, one at Old Wives' Creek, Assa. 

 May 22nd, 1895, an'i two at Medicine Hat, Assa., May, 1894, al 

 by Mr. W. Spreadborough. 



»627a. Western Warbling Vireo. 



Vireo gilvus swainsoni Baird. 1858. 

 Common from Lesser Slave Lake to Peace River Landing, Lat 

 56° 15' in June, 1903 ; first seen at Edmonton, Alta., May 8th 

 1897, breed in the vicinity; observed from Edmonton to McLeoc 

 River in poplar woods in June, 1898; not rare in foothills from Cal 

 gary south to Crow's Nest Pass ; a common species at Banff, Rock} 

 Mountains, breeding in the trees in the valley; shot at Revelstoke 

 B.C., on May 6th, 1890, after which they became common, also a 

 Deer Park and Robson late in June, 1890 ; observed several a 

 Trail near the International Boundary, in 1902, not very com 

 mon ; this species is rare at Kamloops, but not uncommon a 

 Agassiz, Port Heney and Hastings, B.C.; common at Chillivvack 

 B.C., in the spring of 1901, a few were also seen at McGuire': 

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