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resident at St. John, N.B. {Chamberlain.) A pair seen in woods near 

 Black River, Prince Edward Island, July i8th, 1888. {Macoun.) A 

 scarce transient visitant at Montreal. I have shot specimens on 

 the spur of Mount Royal as late as May 28th, 1892, but have not 

 met this species after that date. Mr. Kuetzing says this species 

 breeds on Montreal Island as he has seen them on the eastern 

 part of the island in July. {Wintle.) Seldom met with around 

 Quebec in summer; taken at Beauport. {Dionne.) A rare, 

 irregular spring migrant in May and June. A pair was observed 

 gathering nest material, June 15th, 1902, at Scotch Lake, N.B. 

 {W. H. Moore.) 



A moderately common migrant around Ottawa. {Ottawa 

 Naturalist, Vol. V.) An uncommon warbler in eastern Ontario. 

 I saw one specimen in the grass at Lansdowne, Leeds Co., Ont. 

 A few breed on the Magdalen Islands. I obtained a nest with 

 four eggs taken there in June, 1898, ten feet from the ground, 

 in a spruce tree. The eggs are fully as large as those of 

 the black-poll warbler, but are differently marked. {Rev. C. J. 

 Young.) Not abundant in the Parry Sound and Muskoka districts. 

 I have met with it only during migration. (/. H. Fleming.) 

 Though usually by no means abundant I think no spring season 

 passes without a fair number visiting this locality. If they pass 

 this way in the fall in any numbers I think they do so in company 

 with D. striata which they at this season much resemble, and so 

 are not noted. Occasionally in May they are unusually abundant 

 — my note for igth May, 1888, reading: "Heavy thunderstorm 

 about 3 a.m. and another at 6 a.m. Morning much milder than of 

 late, atmosphere very hazy. Vast influx of migrants, many of 

 which had no doubt been kept back by the cold nights the past 

 week. Bay-breasts were astonishingly numerous, and in fact, 

 though it may seem strange, although many of the common 

 warblers were here in full force, D.castanea^^'s, certainly the most 

 numerous — so much so in fact that at one time I counted no less 

 than twelve feeding on the ground at one time, and in the space 

 of a few feet. The insects had been beaten down by the previous 

 night's storm. I also saw several of these birds taking a dainty 

 little bath in a puddle of water in company with many birds of 

 widely divergent habits. (/. Hughes-Samuels^ Passing migrant 

 at Guelph, Ont. Abundant this fall (1903). Seen about May 

 15th and again about August 27th. {A. B. Klugh.) 



