630 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA. 



wood on the north, is a natural water " runway " where most of 

 the large timber was up-rooted in the terrible wind and ice storm 

 of April, some seven or eight years ago; in one of those up-turned 

 roots, below which there is, in the early season, a deep pool of 

 ■water, I have on several occasions, in past years, noticed a nest of 

 a water-thrush, and expected this year to take a set of its eggs 

 from a cavity in the same old root, but a delay of several days 

 having occurred after the time when I intended to have visited it 

 for that purpose, I found when I did so on the 28th May, that I 

 was too late, the nest was there, but a glance at the four eggs which 

 it contained showed by their galvanized appearance that they 

 were far advanced in incubation, and I did not remove or revisit 

 them; the cavity in which this nest was placed was small, the bird 

 had either found it ready for her purpose, or had partly enlarged 

 it, and the nest itself was made of weed-stems, dry grass, animal 

 hair, and " hair-moss." Usually when the cavity is large, this 

 species uses a quantity of dead leaves in the construction of her 

 nest. {yV. L. Kelts.) This bird is commoner at Sharbot Lake 

 than on the St. Lawrence. Here I have found a number of pairs 

 breeding in 1903. One pair had a nest and young on a small 

 island, June 12th, 1903. {Rev. C.J. Youn^.) 



MUSEUM SPECIMENS. 



Two taken in Algonquin Park, Ont., May 28th, 1900, by Mr. W. 

 Spreadborough. 



675a. Grinnell's Water-Thrush. 



Seiurus noveboracensis notabilis (Ridgw.) Ridgw. 1885. 

 We saw our first water-thrush at Painted Stone Portage. It was 

 close to the edge of the water and was running through the under- 

 growth which fringed the foot of a cliff. On the afternoon of the 

 same day, June 26th, we noted another at Robinson Portage, and 

 on June 30th, a third at Oxford Lake. When we arrived at Oxford 

 House we found the species rather common, and from there to 

 York Factory, as we descended the rivers, its sprightly song was 

 heard daily. A pair seen at a portage on Hill River," July 7th, 

 were feeding young just from the nest. Three specimens were 

 taken in the marshy woods about York Factory, where the species 

 was common July nth to 17th, and one was taken August 8th by 

 Alfred E. Prebles on Churchill River about 15 miles above Fort 



