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slands, and fairly common at Anticosti as well as along the 

 lorth shore of the St. Lawrence. {Brewster.) Not rare at 

 ^ake Mistassini, Que. (/. M. Macoun.) A rare migrant in spring 

 t Quebec. {Diontie^ I consider this species an irregular spring 

 nigrant, and have not met with them here in the autumn. {Wintle.) 



A moderately common migrant in the vicinity of Ottawa. 

 Ottawa Naturalist, Vol. V.) I have seldom seen this bird in east- 

 rn Ontario. I found this to be the commonest warbler by far in 

 ilagdalen Islands in June, 1897; I found four nests all built in 

 lushy spruce trees at from two to five feet from the ground; they 

 .re late birds to arrive there and do not commence to build until 

 he middle of June; I noticed that the eggs were almost all blotch- 

 id with dark umber brown as well as spotted and speckled like 

 he last species. {Rev. C. J. Young.) The black-polls seem very 

 ocal here, as, though I have found them decidedly abundant dur- 

 ng the last two years in a particularly nice little patch of tall wil- 

 ows near the lake shore, I do not know of any one else having 

 loted a single specimen. May 15th is the earliest date on which 



have seen them — three males appearing then, and increasing in 

 lumbers till 26th May, when the first females were seen; by 2nd 

 if June all had passed on; my earliest fall note is 27th August, 

 .nd from this date on the numbers daily increase till the trees are 

 Imost alive with their weak call-notes. While with us in the 

 pring the males keep up their somewhat insect-like notes at 

 ntervals during the whole day, as they glidte from branch to 

 iranch — not dashing and darting about with the vim that is so 

 haracteristic of inany members of this family. {J. Hughes- Samuel.) 

 S. passing migrant at Guelph, Ont.; not common. {A. B. Klugh.) 

 Taken at Fort Churchill, Hudson Bay. {Clarke.) At Oxford 

 iouse, June 30th to July 4th they were rather common; on July 

 0th we noticed a pair in a thicket that bordered Hayes River, a 

 ew miles above York Factory, and on arriving at that post we 

 gain found the birds rather common; at Fort Churchill, where 

 hey were also common we took another specimen, July 24th, 1901. 

 E. A. Prebles.) 



One specimen of this species was procured at Wood Mountain 

 n the 49th parallel by Dr. G. M. Dawson, Geologist of the Eng- 

 !sh Commission. {Coues.) A rare migrant in Manitoba; probably 

 reeding. {Tkompson-Seton.) A tolerably common spring visitant, 

 ossibly breeds at Avenue, Manitoba. {Norman Criddle.) This is 



