CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS. JQQ 



maple. (/. H. Fleming?) Common amongst balsam fir in Algon- 

 quin Park, Ont., June, 1900. {Spreadborough.) Reaching us in 

 the first week in May at Toronto this bird becomes very abun- 

 dant. The female of this species occasions probably as rnuch 

 trouble with the novice as regards identification as any of our 

 birds, flycatchers excepted; but the white spot at the base of the 

 primaries is indisputable evidence and when not clearly apparent 

 always shows when the feathers are parted. Found young 

 just from the nest at Havelock, Ont., July, 1894. (/. Hughes- 

 Samuel.) Rare summer resident in Middlesex Co., Ont., but 

 more common in North Bruce. Fairly common at London, Ont., 

 as a migrant. ( W. E. Saunders.) Mostly a passing migrant at 

 Guelph, Ont. A few pairs breed. Arrives about May 12th, leaves 

 about Sept. 26th. {A. B. Klugh.) Summer resident at Penetan- 

 guishene, Ont. {A. F. Young.) 



Breeding Notes. — This species is common during the spring 

 migrations and a goodly number stay during the summer. The 

 female displays great courage and feigns helplessness and distress, 

 to the utmost degree, when one is near her nest. A nest found 

 July 2ist contained three nearly fresh eggs. It was placed two 

 feet up in a small beech bush, well built into the fork of small 

 limbs and was composed of rotten wood fibres, cocoon silk, and 

 scantily lined with white horse hair. {W. H. Moore}) A nest 

 with young birds was found on the 4th August, 1902, in a wood 

 near Lake Nominingue, about 100 miles north of Ottawd. It was 

 built in a raspberry bush and made of grass and a few leaves, 

 lined with hairlike roots; nest 3x2 and 2 x i"25. {Garneau.) On 

 the afternoon of June 5, 1886, when out in a tract of low, thick under- 

 wood, about a mile to the west of. Wildwood, I found a nest with one 

 egg, which at first I took to be one of a chestnut-sided warbler, so 

 much did it resemble the nest of that species in form, size, mate- 

 rials of composition and situation. The e.gg also had a much 

 similar appearance, but the different notes of the female owner 

 of this nest soon attracted my attention, and I waited, a short 

 time till she came out of the thick foliage where she was con- 

 cealed and approached the more open space where I was standing, 

 then I saw that she was quite a different species, and a more 

 close examination of the nest showed that it was a more com- 

 pactly formed structure than is usually made by the chestnut- 

 sided bird, though the eggs of both species are much similar. 



