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common at Baddeck and Margaree, Cape Breton Island, Jujy, 

 1898. {Macoun.) Abundant at every place visited on Prince Ed- 

 ward Island where the forest was of considerable size. (Dwight!) 

 A common summer migrant in the vicinity of St. John, N.B. 

 {Chamberlain?) A common summer resident at Scotch Lake, 

 York Co., N.B. {W.H.Moore) Rare onjhe Magdalen Islands; 

 one pair seen on Grindstone Island. {Bishop) Rare in the Resti- 

 gouche valley, N.B. {Brittdin & Cox) Met with only about 

 Port Hawksbury, Cape Breton Island, and at Fox and Ellis bays, 

 Anticosti. {Brewster) A rather common summer resideint at 

 Quebec ; taken at Charlesbourg. {Dionne) A common spring 

 migrant, but a scarce summer resident at Montreal. Observed 

 here about May 7th and leave about October loth. {Wintle) 



A moderately common migrant in the vicinity of Ottawa. 

 {Ottawa Naturalist., Vol. V.) A few of these birds are to be met 

 with in eastern Ontario in the breeding season; I met with a nest 

 once in the month of July, 1898; this was on Deer Island, one of 

 the Thousand Islands; it was built in a pine tree about 25 feet 

 from the ground and at the time contained young birds. {Rev. 

 C.J. Young) A common summer resident in Parry Sound and 

 Muskoka districts. Mr. Kay refers to it as only just becoming 

 common at Port Sydney, Muskoka in 1890. (/. H. Fleming) Not 

 very common in summer in Algonquin Park, Ont. in 1900; only a 

 few observed in the tree tops in thick woods. {Spreadborough) 

 Abundant summer resident around Toronto. (/. Hughes-Samuel.) 

 A rather common summer resident in the deeper cedar swamps 

 around London; abundant as a migrant; a common breeding bird 

 in North Bruce. {W. E. Saunders) Fairly common summer 

 resident at Guelph, Ont., and abundant during migrations. This 

 year (1903) it has been as common a breeder as the yellow and 

 black-and-white warblers and by far our most abundant migrant; 

 arrives about May ist and leaves about September 30th. (A.B. 

 Klugh) 



One specimen taken at Medicine Hat, Assa., May 17th, 1894 ; 

 the only one seen; first seen at Edmonton, Alta., May isth, 1897; 

 common in spruce woods by May 22nd; breeding in the woods; 

 one pair seen at Peace River Landing in Lat. 56° 1 5' in June, 1903. 

 {Spreadborough) This species was seen at Avenue, Manitoba, on 

 May 13th and 17th, 1898. {Norman Criddle) 



