6lO GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA. 



in diameter. The nests are quite shallow, but are constructed 

 similarly to those of the redstart. Eggs four. In former years 

 the birds were much more common in the vicinity of London, 

 Ont. (W. E. Saunders^ Nest and eggs taken at Drummondville, 

 near Niagara Falls, Ont. (See Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, I., 

 1S74, p. 235.) A regular summer resident in southern Ontario, but 

 local. One spring I searched for it carefully near Hamilton 

 without seeing a single individual, while across the bay, four 

 miles off, Mr. Dickson reported it quite common and breeding in 

 the woods near the Waterdown station of the Grand Trunk Rail- 

 way. {Mcllwraith.) 



Breeding Notes. — I have two nests with sets of eggs of this 

 species collected by Mr. Edward Reinecke, of Buffalo, N.Y. One 

 nest containing four eggs was found on Navy Island, in the 

 Niagara River. The nest was placed on the limb of an elm, near 

 the top about 50 feet from the ground and very hard to get at. 

 ( W. Raine.) 



MUSEUM SPECIMEN. 



One purchased with the Holman collection in 1885. 



659. Chestnut-sided Warbler. 



Dendroica pensylvanicd (Linn.) Baird. 1858. 



Accidental in South Greenland in 1887. {Winge.) Tolerably 

 common throughout the summer in Newfoundland. (Reeks.) An 

 abundant summer resident at Halifax, N.S. (Downs.) A rare 

 summer resident at St. John, N.B. (Chamberlain^ Tolerably 

 common summer resident at Scotch Lake, York Co., N.B. (W.H. 

 Moore) Common summer resident at Montreal ; breeds in Mount 

 Royal park; nests with eggs found from June 5th to 24th; observ- 

 ed here from May nth to August i8th. (Wintle.) A scarce mi- 

 grant and possible resident in summer at Quebec. (Dionm.) 



A common summer resident in the vicinity of Ottawa. (Ottawa 

 Naturalist, Vol. V.) Not uncommon about Lansdowne, Leeds 

 Co., Ont.; I found a nest with four eggs, built in a small elm three 

 feet from the ground, June 3rd, 1896 and plainly identified the 

 bird. (Rev. C.J. Young) An abundant summer resident in Parry 

 Sound and Muskoka districts. (/. H. Fleming) Observed several 

 in low bushes along the Parry Sound Railway on dry ground and 

 in burnt woods where the second growth is low, in Algonquin 



