CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS. 619 



A rare summer visitor in the western part of Manitoba, but more 

 common in the eastern part where it doubtless breeds. I noticed 

 it only once at Carberry. {Tkompson-Seton) A rare spring 

 migrant at Avenue, Manitoba. {Norman Criddie,) This species is 

 recorded by Murray from Severn House and Trout Lake, Kee- 

 watin under the name Sylvicola parus. {E. A. Prebles) 



MUSEUM SPECIMENS. 



Four; one taken by the writer at Ottawa in May, 1888, another 

 by Dr.aF. A. Saunders May 27th, 1891; one taken at Toronto in 

 1886 by Mr. S. Herring; one in Algonquin Park, Ont., May 29th, 

 1900, by Mr. W. Spreadborough. 



665. Black-throated Gray Warbler. 



Dendroica nigrescens (Towns.) Baird. 1858. 

 This species was taken at Agassiz and at Hastings, in the Fraser 

 valley in May, 1889. Four individuals were shot at Huntington 

 on the International Boundary in September, 1902. These were 

 the only ones seen-. {Spreadborough?^ British Columbia. {Lord.) 

 Found on the coast only; not common. {Streator.) Not common; 

 I have only noticed it on the coast. {Fannin.) Tolerably com- 

 mon summer resident at Chilliwack. {Brooks.) On Vancouver 

 Island the peculiar song of nigrescens was occasionally detected 

 but no birds secured. I feel quite sure that I saw a pair in the 

 mountains back of Clinton, B.C. {Rhoads.) 



MUSEUM SPECIMENS. 



Four; one taken at Hastings, Burrard Inlet, in April, i88g, 

 three at Huntington, B.C., September 23rd, 1901, by Mr. W. 

 Spreadborough. 



667. Black-throated Green "Warbler. 



Dendroica virens (Gmel.) Baird. 1858. 

 One specimen sent from Julianshaab in 1853. {Arct. Man.) A 

 tolerably common summer resident in Newfoundland. {Reeks.) 

 Common summer resident in pine and spruce woods at Halifax, 

 N.S. {Downs.) Several seen May 25th, at Sydney, Cape Breton 

 Island, N.S. {C. R. Harte.) Quite common in spruce trees at 

 Brackley Point, Prince Edward Island ; breeding June, i{ 



