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its being noticed at Port Rowan. Dr. Macallum sees it every 

 spring and summer near his residence at Dunnville, Ont. {^M'cll- 

 wraith.) By the kindness of Mr. W. Hine, of Winnipeg, Man., I 

 am enabled to record the capture of a golden-winged warbler 

 taken by him near Winnipeg on or about May 27th, 1887. {C. F. 

 Batchelder in The Auk, Vol. VII, p. 404.) 



MUSEUM SPECIMEN. 



One purchased with the Holman coUecti.jn in 1885. 



645. Nashville Warbler. 



Helmi7ithophila ruficapilla (WiLS.) Ridgw. 1882. 



Obtained twice in Greenland ; once at Godthaab about 1835, ^'^^ 

 again at the Fiskenaes, August 31st, 1840. {Arct. Man.) A sum- 

 mer migrant in Newfoundland, but apparently rare. {Reeks.) A 

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

 few specimens seen at Baddeck, Cape Breton Island, Julj', 1898. 

 {Macoun.) Rather abundant .at Tignish, Prince Edward Island, 

 and not met with elsewhere. {Dwight.) A common summer 

 resident at St. John, N.B. {Chamberlain.) Common summer 

 resident at Scotch Lake, York Co., N.B. {W. H. Moore.) Heard 

 singing in the woods at Gaspe Bay, Quebec, July 15th. {Brewster.) 

 Taken at Charlesbourg arid common around Quebec. {Diomu?^ A 

 scarce transient visitant ; I have observed two examples of this 

 warbler here, both of them males; which I shot on the spur of 

 Mount Royal; Mr. Kuetzing says he has found this species com- 

 mon here, and that they breed in the swampy parts of the woods 

 on the Island of Montreal. {Wintle.) 



A summer resident at Ottawa, Ont.; a nest of this species 

 with four eggs was taken in Dow's swamp, 13th July, 1881 ;. in 

 1882 the bird was noted as quite common. {Ottawa Naturalist, 

 Vol. V.) A summer resident in Parry Sound and Muskoka dis- 

 tricts; Jsreeding inswampy places. {J.H.Fleming.) Common in 

 tamarac swamps in Algonquin Park, Ont., in June, 1900. {Spread- 

 borough.) Very plentiful in spring at Toronto, especially among 

 scattered patches of scrub oak trees where they seem to find 

 palatable diet among the slowly expanding buds; I have not ob- 

 served these birds in such numbers during the fall migrations. 

 (/. Hughes-Samuel^ Breeds in a very few restricted localities in 

 small numbers ; often common as a migrant at London, Ont. ; 



