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avel northward; at Robson they were found breeding i,ooo feet 

 above the Columbia on June 26th, i8go; observed throughout the 

 district .between Trail and Kettle River, near the International 

 Boundary, quite common at Trail where a nest was taken on May 

 24th, igo2, it was placed on the ground between two stones, over- 

 hung with grass; the nest was made of the inner bark of trees lined 

 with hair and quills from the western porcupine. {Spreadborough.) 

 Common in the Okanagan district of B.C. {Brooks.) Two 

 examples were taken at Vernon, B.C., and others were seen at 

 Nelson. They may be considered as neither rare nor abundant 

 in British Columbia. {Rhoads) Taken at Vernon, Lake Okana- 

 gan, by Mr. A. C. Brooks in 1898. {Fannin.) 



MUSEUM SPECIMENS. 



Seven; one taken at Revelstoke, B.C., May 7th, 1890; six taken 

 at Trail, B.C., in May, 1902. One set of five eggs taken at Trail, 

 B.C., May 24th, 1902, all by Mr. W. Spreadborough. 



646. Orange-crowned Warbler. 



Helminthophila celata (Say) Ridgw. 1882. 

 Of rare occurrence at St. John, N.B., but has never been record- 

 ed at Scotch Lake. (W. H. Moore.) One example taken at 

 Beauport near Quebec, in 1890. (Dionne.) A rare transient visitant 

 at Montreal. I shot a male specimen of this warbler. May 21st, 

 1890, on the spur of Mount Royal and it is the only one of the 

 kind I have met with here. {Wintle.) A casual in the vicinity of 

 Ottawa; a male was shot by Mr. E. F. G. White, Sept. 27th, 1885, 

 near the eastern end of the city. {Ottawa Naturalist, Vo\.V.) Occurs 

 in Toronto regularly, apparently not uncommon ; took one in 

 Toronto on October loth, 1898, and another on May 7th, 1899. 

 {J. H. Fleming!) During several seasons of careful observations 

 I have only once met with a small party of these warblers ; this 

 was on I2th May, 1900 when I was fortunate in obtaining two 

 specimens, one of which I was surprised to find on dissecting was 

 a female. The plumage of this bird is yery plain and but for the 

 frequency of its call note or " chep " might easily p^ss'unnoticed; 

 and even when its presence is detected it is so remarkably active 

 and darts so rapidly from tree to tree that its capture is by no 

 means certain. (/. Hughes-Samuel^ A regular migrant at Lon- 

 don, Ont.; but never common. {W. E. Saunders?^ One was taken 



