CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS. 589 



647. Tennessee Warbler. 



Helminthophita peregrina (Wils.) Ridgw. 1882. 

 Obtairred by Drexler at Fort George, James Bay, in June and 

 July, i860. {Packard^ Rather common at Stewiacke, but never 

 seen at Halifax, N.S. {Downs.) A rather common summer resident 

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

 .Scotch Lake, York Co., N.B. {W.H.Moore.) Very rare in the 

 Restigouche valley, N.B. {Brittain & Cox.) Not rare at Lake 

 Mistassini, Quebec. (/. M. Macoun.) The only specimen noticed 

 was shot at Fox Bay, Anticosti, July i ith. {Brewster.) Not common 

 summer resident around Quebec; taken at Beauport. {Diontw.) A 

 common but transient visitant at Montreal. Mr. Kuetzing has 

 found this species here in May, and common for a week or two in 

 swampy places, and I have shot a few in hedgerows in the fields at 

 Hochelaga in May. {Wintle.) 



Rare migrant in the vicinity of Ottawa; one was shot on the 

 bank of the Rideau, April 9th, 1882, by Mr. G. R. White; another 

 was shot May i6th, 1888. (Ottawa Naturalist, Vol. V.) On May 

 i8th, 1897, I took one of these warblers in a large alder swamp at 

 Emsdale, Parry Sound, Ont., and saw several more in the same 

 place on 22nd May. They continued common till the 26th, when 

 I only saw one. {J. H. Fleming.) I have usually heard this bird 

 spoken of as rare, but sincd I first had the pleasure of its personal 

 acquaintance I have concluded that many observers have passed 

 it over on account of its dull plumage, and in some cases it may 

 have been passed as a Regulus, which, in coloration, it somewhat 

 resembles. I believe the bird occurs with us regularly, at any rate 

 in limited numbers; my note dated 22nd May, J1900, reads : — A 

 grand morning, warm and summer-like, a great many warblers in 

 the willows ; magnolias very abundant, some of these being so 

 particularly handsome as to give the place quite a tropical effect; 

 I came across an unusually large number of Tennessee warblers 

 singing, or rather chipping merrily away in the early morning 

 sunshine, two of which I secured; there were not less than 25 of 

 this species in one small patch of willow-. {J Hughes-Samuel) 

 Sometimes fairly common at London, Ont., in migration. {W. E. 

 Saunders.) 



Upon my arrival at Pembina, the beginning of June, I at once 

 perceived that the vernal migration of the present species past 



