CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS. 627 



seen at Fort McMurray, Lat. 56° 40'. A few individuals at the 

 north end of Methye portage. (/. M. Macoun.) This very pretty 

 bird breeds on the banks of the Saskatchewan, and perhaps in 

 still higher latitudes. One was killed at Cumberland House, 

 June 1st, 1827. (Richardson.) From Fort Yukon, some distance 

 down the river, this bird is known to breed. Dall tells us that it 

 is common in that region, and on May 30th secured a single 

 specimen above Nulato; its nesting range extends within the 

 Arctic Circle on the upper Yukon. (Nehon.) Osgood took a 

 male at Skagway, Alaska, May 31st, 1899. At Glacier it was 

 tolerably common in the dense woods of spruce and fir and un- 

 questionably nesting; altogether we noticed about twenty indi- 

 viduals during our stay. Osgood took an adult at the southern 

 end of Lake Marsh, July 1st 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.) Accidental on Van- 

 couver Island at Esquimault. (Ridgway.) 



Breeding Notes. — On the 14th June as I was passing with a 

 team of horses attached to a wagon, along a road-way through 

 the above mentioned wood, my companion directed my attention 

 to the action of a small bird that was seen to flush almost from 

 under the horses' feet, and by her manner of running along the 

 gro md, indicated that she had been disturbed off her nest. A 

 little search discovered her home which contained three youn^g 

 just hatched out ; this was a nest of an oven bird, otherwise 

 known, as the accenator, or golden-crowned thrush ; it was partly 

 sunk in the virgin mould, amid dry leaves and some wild-flower 

 stalks, and under a small branch, and composed of dry leaves and 

 decayed vegetable stalks, and being covered over like a small 

 hut, or oven, was so well concealed that the passer-by even in 

 searching for it, could fail in most cases to notice it, and this site 

 was only a few inches from where the horses and cattle had 

 walked with heavy steps, and where the wheels of the wagon had 

 sunk deep in the soft earth; it contained three young just hatched; 

 and the mother bird in leaving it acted more like a mouse than a 

 creature with wings. (W. L. Kells.) A nest with four eggs found 

 on July 1st, 1903, near Ottawa; it was under a bed of dead leaves, 

 roofed over but with a side entrance and had the form of an 

 oven; the materials used were leaves and grass; it was six inches 

 long, six inches wide and four inches high; the entrance was three 



