CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS. 595 



1899. (/. Hughes-Samuel?) Common summer resident at Guelph, 

 Ont.; arrives about May 4th, leaves about Aug. i8th. {A.B.Khtgh.) 

 Abundant summer resident, breeds in gardens very frequently at 

 Penetanguishene, Ont. ; I have seen four nests of this species 

 in a garden of less than half an acre. {A. F. Young.) Rather 

 Common at Norway House, Oxford House, and York Factory. 

 Specimens taken at these three points have a slightly darker 

 crown than is usual in eastern examples, but are referable to the 

 typical form. {E. A. Prebles.) York Factory, Hudson Bay. {Dr. 

 J?. Bell.) Also taken at Fort Churchill, Hudson Bay. {Clarke.) 

 This abundant and universally diffused specJeswas observed at 

 various points along the 49th parallel from Pembina to the Rocky 

 Mountains. {Coues.) A very abundant summer resident every- 

 where in Manitoba, breeding throughout the whole province. 

 {Thompson-Seton.) Common and breeding at Avenue, Man. {Norman 

 Criddle.) First seen at Indian Head, Assa.,May 27th,i892,soon after 

 they became abundant and began to breed in great numbers; first 

 seen at Medicine Hat, Assa., May igth, 1894, commenced nesting 

 by the 23rd, two nests finished by the 29th and laying commenced; 

 common in all brushy parts of western Assiniboia, especially at 

 Crane Lake and Cypress Hills. This is a common species where- 

 ever there is brush, and builds indiscriminately in the forks of 

 a rose-bush or a willow or Elceagnus; numerous nests were taken 

 at Wood Mountain and wherever there was brush across Assini- 

 boia and Alberta to Waterton Lake at Chief Mountain in the 

 summer of 1895; observed from the mouth of Lesser Slave River 

 to Peace River Landing, Lat. 56° 15', in June, 1903; first seen at 

 Edmonton, Alta., May 12th, 1897, June 14th two nests were taken 

 in small willow trees, nest very compact, composed chiefly of 

 willow down held together with horse-hair; abundant in willow 

 thickets throughout the trip from Edmonton west to Atha- 

 basca Pass, in June, 1898 ; common in the foothills south of 

 Calgary ; quite common and breeding in large numbers at 

 Banff, Rocky Mountains, in the summer of 1891; very common 

 at Revelstoke and Robson, on the Columbia River, in June, 

 1890 ; one nest was taken in the fork of a cottonwobd, 40 feet 

 from the ground on June 21st, 1890, containing four fresh eggs; a 

 few were breeding at Trail, near the International Boundary, in 

 June, 1902; occasional at Kamloops and Spetice's Bridge, B.C.; a 

 few doubtful specimens at Victoria, Vancouver Island. {Spread- 



