622 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA. 



at the southern end of Lake Marsh, north of Lat. 60°, in the 

 Yukon district, July ist, and I an adult female and a young female 

 on the west shore of Lake Labarge, July 14th. This is a new 

 species to the Yukon valley. {Bishop) Two specimens taken 

 respectively in Kenai Mountains, Alaska, August 14th, and at 

 Sheep Creek, August 17th, considerably extend the range of this 

 species to the westward. {Chapman) 



MUSEUM SPECIMENS. 



Fourteen; one taken at Revelstoke, B.C., May 23rd, 1890; two 

 at Huntington, B.C., in June, 1901; eleven at Victoria, Van- 

 couver Island, April and May, 1893, all by Mr. W. Spreadborough. 



669. Hermit Warbler. 



Dendroica occidentalis (Towns.) Baird. 1858. 

 A summer resident, chiefly west of the Coast Range in British 

 Columbia. {Fannin) We have no other record of this species 

 and yet we have looked for it every season. 



670. Kirtland's Warbler, 



Dendroica kirtlandi Baird. 1858. 

 This is said to be the only warbler occurring in North America of 

 which the nest and eggs are unknown; and prior to the past 

 spring (1900) the appearance of this bird in Canada has not been 

 recorded as far as I have been able to ascertain. My notes are as 

 follows : " i6th May, 1900, 5.30 a.m., morning dull; east wind, 

 warblers, &c., plentiful. After a while I was attracted to the 

 centre of a cluster or tall willow trees by notes — strong, clear 

 and with quite a musical ring — and as the song, short but remark- 

 ably pretty was quite new to me I approached carefully under 

 cover of a tree trunk and found myself within a few feet of my 

 new acquaintance, for such it proved to be. While watching 

 the bird with my field glass I noticed a tendency to jerk his tail 

 slightly, and not like the ostentatious jerk of a water thrush, but 

 more after the nervous manner I have seen adopted in fall by 

 Wilsonia pusilla. As soon as the bird observed me he darted into 

 another tree, hiding behind a branch, but, curiously enough, still 

 singing. I approached under cover and on taking the bird found 

 I had been fortunate enough to secure a specimen of D. kirtlan I'i 

 in good plumage. On stepping the distance from the tree where 



