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(Bishop?) I saw this species but once on the 25th May near our 

 camp on the Kowak, Kotzebue Sound, Alaska, but heard it a num- 

 ber of times. {Gtinnell.) 



Breeding Notes. — On June i8th, 1900, Mr. C. E. Whittaker, 

 found a nest of this rare warbler at Peel River, within the Arctic 

 Circle. It was built in the grass on the ground and contained six 

 eggs ; on June 22nd, 1902, Mr. Dippie found a nest and five eggs 

 at Banff, Rocky Mountains. (W. Raitie.) A nest of this species 

 was found on June 13th, 1897, on the edge of a wood in a rather 

 damp situation. This was completely hidden by over-hanging 

 grass and small aspen trees it was sunken in the ground and was 

 composed of grass built with a few horse hairs. There were five 

 eggs in it almost hatched. Another nest of the same species was 

 found on July ist near the edge of a large bluff, this was as much 

 as the somewhat scanty vegetation would allow and was hidden 

 from above by young aspens. There were four fresh eggs in the 

 nest which were between 1 5 and 16 mm. long and 12 mm. wide, they 

 were white, thickly marked about the larger end with very fine 

 slaty-gray and somewhat large brown spots. A third nest examined 

 after the birds had left was in almost exactly the same situation 

 as the first. {Norman Criddle.) 



MUSEUM SPECIMENS, 



Four; three taken at Medicine Hat, Assa., in May, 1894; one at 

 Indian Head, Assa., May i6th, 1892; all by Mr. W. Spreadborough 



• 646a. Luteseent Warbler. 



Helminthophila celata lutescens (Ridgw.) Brewst. 1882. 

 Saw one individual at Edmonton, Alta., May 5th, 1897, after- 

 wards the species wasi occasionally seen so that I think a few 

 remained to breed ; breeding in numbers at Banff, Rocky 

 Mountains, in June, 1891; shot in Eagle Pass, west of Revelstoke, 

 B.C.; breeding in the pass, but not seen east of the Columbia in 

 1890; only one observed at Trail, B.C., in June, 1902; abundant 

 in the woods at Hastings, but not so common at Agassiz, B.C., in 

 May, 1889; a few seen at Chilliwack, B.C., in the spring of 1902; 

 a common summer resident on Vancouver Island; first seen on 

 April l6th, 1893, and became common in a few days, a nest was 

 taken containing four eggs on May 13th; nest on the ground built 

 of moss lined with dry grass and hair; quite common at Comox 

 and Nanaimo. {Spreadborough^ 



