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a common spring migrant at Indian Head, Assa., two individuals 

 were seen May 9th, 1892 ; towards the end of the month they 

 became common, but all disappeared by June sth ; first saw one 

 male May loth, 1894, at Medicine Hat, Assa.; quite common by 

 the i6th, all disappeared by the end of May ; some may breed, 

 as they acted as if they would ; n few individuals seen at Old 

 Wives' Creek, Assa,, late in May, 1895 ! o"^ individual seen at 

 the upper crossing of Lob-stick Creek, northwest of Edmon- 

 ton, June, 1898 ; a common breeding species at Banff, Rocky 

 Mountains in the summer of 1891 ; observed a pair at Bragg's 

 Creek about 40 miles southwest of Calgary, June 28th, 1897. 

 {Spreadborougk.) One specimen secured at the Grand Rapids of 

 the Saskatchewan. {Nutting.) Two or three individuals seen on the 

 Athabasca River near Lesser Slave River. (/. M. Macoun.) Our 

 specimen of this bird was killed by an Indian in the neighbour- 

 hood of Cumberland House, in the latter end of May. {Richardson.) 

 North to Lapierre's House, on the Mackenzie River ; conjmon. 

 {Ross.) More plentiful tha.n D. coronata, aXihough only 21 nests 

 were secured. {Macfarlane.) They were all similarly situated, and 

 contained four or five eggs, and two or three of them were on the 

 ground. I shot a black-poll warbler in the first plumage atQues- 

 nel, B.C., but was unable to find it in the thick brush; I am very 

 well acquainted with the species and am positive of its identity. 

 {Brooks.) Although this species has its breeding grounds in the 

 wooded interior it occurs along the sea-coast of Norton Sound 

 during the spring migration. {Nelson.) This species was obtained 

 only at Fort Yukon on September i8th, 1875, ^nd also in 1877; it 

 is not common at any time in that locality. {TurTier.) At Log 

 Cabin in the White Pass on June 15th, 1899, this species was com- 

 mon; on July 5th took a male at Lake Marsh and two specimens 

 were taken at Caribou Crossing, B.C. {Bishop.) One specimen 

 taken at Fort Kenai, Cook's Inlet, Alaska, by Bischoff. {Osgood) 

 Found breeding in the Kowak valley, Kotzebue Sound, Alaska, in 

 1899. {Grinnell.) An adult female was taken on Sheep Creek on 

 the Kenai Peninsula, Alaska ; besides being noted at several 

 other points and no doubt breeds there. {Chapman.) 



MUSEUM SPECIMENS. 



Fifteen; one taken at Ottawa by the writer in May, 1888, and 

 two others by Dr. F. A. Saunders in May, 1890 ; one taken at 



