CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS. 58 1 



It is an abundant species on Duck Mountain in that province, in 

 spruce woods. {Thotkpson-Seton.) First seen at Avenue, Mani- 

 toba, May I2th, 1903, and last was seen August 27th, 1903; it was 

 common on May 12th. {Norman Criddle.) This seems to be a rare 

 migrant at Indian Head, Assa., it was first seen May i ith and dis- 

 appeared by the end' of the month, not seen further west on the 

 prairie; one individualseen at Peace River Landing, Lat. 56° 15', 

 in June, 1903; first seen at Edmonton, Alta., May 6th, 1897, not 

 very common, seen chiefly in the mixed timber along the river 

 hardly ever seen in poplar woods; a few individuals seen in the 

 foothills south of Calgary. {Spreadborough.) North to Fort 

 ^Simpson on the Mackenzie River; very rare. {Ross.) One speci- 

 men found dead in the woods at the Grand Rapids of the Sas- 

 katchewan. {Nutting.) 



Breeding Notes. — Nest on the ground, composed of bark, 

 grass and leaves, lined with plant down and hair, in woods near 

 Ottawa. Eggs 4-6, creamy-white, spotted and sprinkled with 

 reddish-brown. {G. R. White.) This warbler is one of the first of 

 the main drove of warblers that arrives from the south. They 

 come early in May and herald their arrival by singing their weak 

 see-see-see-see song. The young are able to be about with the 

 adults by the lOth of July. Although resembling the parent 

 birds, the stripes are not so well defined in their plumage as are 

 those of the parents. The old birds are very alert and watchful 

 when the young are unable to know danger themselves. {W. H. 

 Moore.) On the southeast corner of the farm lot that adjoins 

 Wildwood on the north, and but a few rods from the boundary 

 line, in a stretch of low ground, there stands the turned-up root 

 of an old fallen tree, the top of which is over a dozen feet from 

 the level ground. In what was once the " upper " side of this 

 " turn-up " and about half-way in its height, I discovered on the 

 28th of May a nest containing three eggs which, at the time, I 

 took to be those of a Canadian warbler. Three days after I re- 

 visited the site, found the mother bird " at home," and seated on 

 the nest. At my near approach she flushed off and down upon 

 the ground, where with outspread and quivering wings, and the 

 venting of a few notes, she attempted to draw my attention from 

 her treasures. Gazing down on the interesting little creature 

 within a few feet of where I stood, I was not much surprised, 

 though somewhat disappointed, to note that the specimen was of 



