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A -rare migrant at Ottawa; latest record May 6th and 8th, 18^8. 

 {^Ottawa Naturalist, Vol. V.) I noticed this bird to be very com- 

 mon in bushy places and waste ground on Wolfe Island near 

 Kingston, Ont., near the end of April and beginning of May, 1900. 

 They were migrating but for a few days were quite tame, alight- 

 ing a good deal on the ground at the base of small bushes. {Rev. 

 C. J. Young ^ 



673. Prairie Warbler. 



Dendroica discolor (Vieill.) Baird. 1858. 

 The only note I have of this bird reads : — " nth May, 1900. 

 Very cold morning and I did not see more than a dozen common 

 warblers from 5 to 7a.m. As I was coming home I saw a small but 

 active little warbler which was quite new to mc and I followed it 

 for a considerable distance as it passed quickly from tree to tree. 

 Ultimately I took it and was pleased to find that I had a speci- 

 men of the prairie warbler, the first recorded appearance of this 

 bird in Ontario. (/. Hughes-Samuel!) On May nth, 1900, while 

 on a collecting expedition near Toronto, Ont., I took a male 

 prairie warbler in full plumage. (/. H. Ames in The Auk, Vol. 

 XVIII., p. 106.) 



CCXXIX. SEIURUS SwAiNsoN. 1827. 



674. Oven Bird, Golden-crowned Thrush. 



Seiurus aurocapillus (Linn.) Swains. 1827. 

 A skin taken at Nanortalik, Greenland, in May, 1882, is in the 

 museum at Copenhagen. (Winge.) Stearns, p. 116, records this 

 species as breeding in southern Labrador. (Packard.) Very 

 abundant along the Moose River; seemed to prefer the hillsides 

 of the rivervalley that have a heavy growth of birch and poplar; 

 none observed as far north as Moose Factory in 1896. (Spread- 

 borough.) Locally common as far north as Aillik in north- 

 eastern Labrador. (Bigelow.) A summer migrant in New- 

 foundland, but not common. (Reeks.) A common summer 

 resident at Halifax, N.S. (Dowm.) A few observed at Baddeck, 

 Cape Breton Island, in June, i8go. (F.H.Allen.) A common 

 summer resident at Sydney, Cape Breton Island. (C. R. Harte.) 

 One was noted at Tignish, Prince Edward Island, and a number 



