CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS. 603 



of white pine on an island in Gull Lake, Frontenac Co., Ont.; at 

 this date it contained three young birds, recently hatched; on the 

 r6th June I found another nest on an island in Sharbot Lake ; it 

 was just like the first one I found close to the water and about' 

 seven feet from the ground ; the nest is large for the bird, built 

 of dead twigs of spruce and hemlock with some fibrous roots, and 

 lined with grass, feathers, rootlets, &c., the feathers in each nest 

 being a special feature; outside it somewhat resembles the nest of 

 the purple finch. {Rev. C.J. Young.) 



The first warbler to arrive in spring at Scotch Lake, N.B., com- 

 ing about the first of May and staying mostly about young growth 

 woods or bushy pastures; they are fairly common during migra- 

 tion, and some seasons stay to breed ; one nest was placed six 

 feet up in a tamarac bush and contained four eggs. {W. H.Moore.) 

 Nests' found around Ottawa in May and June, saddled on the 

 middle of a branch six feet from the ground in a large fir tree or 

 at the summit of a small cedar tree ten feet high; they are made 

 of twigs and rootlets covered with spider webs or a little plant 

 down and lined with feathers and hairs; in some the feathers hide 

 the eggs, in others the hairs are over the feathers; nest 4x2 and 2 

 X Vi,o. {Garneau.) On the i8th June, 1882,1 discovered, for the first 

 time in my experience, a nest of the myrtle warbler; it was in a low, 

 black ash timbered swamp, where there was an intermingling of 

 othersoft woods and conifers, near where I had foundja bay-breasted 

 warbler the year before, and of whose nest I was again in search, 

 when I espied in a low balsam, about four feet from the ground, a 

 nestwith the mother bird seated upon it; at first sight this avifaunian 

 cradle, in situation, material and construction, appeared like that 

 of a chipping sparrow, but when the bird flushed off on my near 

 approach, and from a position on a branch near by watched my 

 movements, shifting uneasily and uttering a few " chip "-like 

 notes, I carefully noted her plumage and became certain of her 

 identity as a female myrtle warbler. This nest contained. four 

 eggs, quite fresh though the bird had begun to incubate; the nest 

 itself was composed of stalks of dried weeds, fibres of bark, root- 

 lets and hair from the tails of horses and cattle; the next summer 

 Lsaw another complete nest of this bird, it contained no eggs; this 

 was placed in the top of a small bushy blue-beech five or six feet 

 high, and situated in a swampy piece of bush land. ( W. L. Kells.) 

 A very abundant species last spring (1903); the 17th May last 



