CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS. 629 



Rathercommon summer resident at Halifax, N.S.; occurs also at 

 Kentville and Grand Lake. {Downs.) A pair seen at Sydney, 

 Cape Breton Island, N.S. in 1901. {C. R. Harte.) Observed at 

 Baddeck and Margaree, Cape Breton Island, N.S., July, 1898. 

 {Macoun.) A few individuals were met with at Tignish, Prince 

 Edward Island only. It is invariably found along brooks or in 

 their near vicinity. {Dwight.) A summer resident but not a com- 

 mon bird at St. John, N.B. {Chamberlain.) A tolerably common 

 summer resident at Scotch Lake, York Co., N.B., breeding in 

 June. {W.H.Moore.) Met with frequently in the Restigouche 

 valley, N.B. {Brittain & Cox.) Common and breeding at Lake 

 Mistassini, Que. (/. M. Macoun.) A scarce summer resident 

 around Montreal; it has been taken at Hochelaga and seen at St. 

 Lambert, but no nests have been taken, though it evidently br.eeds 

 on the island of Montreal. {Wintle.) Not uncommon around 

 Quebec, taken at Beauport. {Dionns.) 



A moderately common summer resident in the vicinity of Ot- 

 tawa. (C itawa Naturalist, Vol. V.) I have noticed this bird both 

 in the counties of Lanark and Leeds, Ont.; in the latter it breeds 

 among the Thousand Islands of the St. Lawrence, as I found a 

 nest as late as July, 1894. {Rev. C. J. Young.) A pair taken by 

 Mr. Kay, at Port Sydney, Muskoka, Ont., on May 24th, 1889, is 

 the only record I have for the district. (/. H. Fleming.) Com- 

 mon everywhere in the flooded woods at the margins of the lakes 

 in Algonquin Park, Ont. {Spreadborough^ Breeds commonly 

 around Belmont Lake, Peterboro' Co., Ont.; in the fall migration 

 it is sometimes very abundant near Toronto as was the case from 

 the I2th August to 15th September, 1900. {J.Hughes-Samuel!) 

 Common in the migrations at London, Ont.; afew breed in retired 

 localities. {tV. E. Saunders.) Common summer resident at Guelph, 

 Ont. ; arrives about April 30th, and leaves about August 29th. 

 {A. B. Klugh.) I have a set of five eggs that were taken by Mr. 

 Kells at Listowel, western Ontario, on May 22nd, 1890; the nest 

 was built in a cavity of a turned-up tree root in a swamp. {W. 

 Raiiie.) 



Breeding Notes. — Nest found on the bank of theRideau River 

 near Ottawa; it was built by the side of a log and composed of 

 moss, old leaves and plant stems, intermixed with black rootlets. 

 Eggs 5, white with reddish brown spots, mostly at the larger end. 

 {G. R. White.) Near the centre of the woodland, adjoining Wild- 



