634 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA. 



resident at Avenue Manitoba, arriving about the middle of May 

 and leaving about Sept. 7th. (^Norman Criddle.) The writer paid a 

 visit to the swamp south of Carberry in June, 1896, and had the 

 good fortune to secure a nest on the outskirts of the bog and 

 almost on a level with the water. It contained one egg and three 

 very young birds; there seemed no scarcity of excited birds as I 

 floundered through the bog. 



.679. Mourning Warbler. 



Geothlypis Philadelphia (Wils.) Baird. 1858. 



One specimen obtained at the Fiskinaees in 1846, another at 

 Julianshaab in 1853. {Arct. Man) Rare about Halifax, but 

 common in the interior of Nova Scotia as a summer resident. 

 {Downs?) Apparently rare on Prince Edward Island, though a 

 few were found at Souris in the bushy edges of dry fields, adjoin- 

 ing woods. {Dwight.) A rare summer resident at St. John, N.B. 

 {Cliamberlain.) Not uncommon in the upper part of the Resti- 

 gouche valley, N.B. {Brittain & Cox.) 



A rare species around Quebec; taken at Beauport. {Dionne.) 

 Transient and scarce visitant around Montreal. Has been shot 

 at Outremontand Hochelaga. {Wintle.) A moderately common 

 summer resident around Ottawa. {Ottawa Naturalist, Vol. V.) 

 A few of these birds breed in the county of Leeds, Ont. I met 

 with the nest on 31st May, 1893, containing four eggs mucl; resem- 

 bling those of the yellow-throat. A peculiarity of the nest, and 

 one I believe generally observed, is that it is lined with black 

 fibres and rootlets and not as the yellow-throat with fine grass and 

 hair. This bird is a common species during migrations on the 

 Magdalen Islands and probably breeds there also. {Rev. C. J. 

 Young.) A fairly common resident in Parry Sound and Muskoka 

 districts. It is one of the latest arrivals in spring. {J.H.Fleming) 

 Quite common along the Parry Sound Railway in Algonquin 

 Park, Ont., always in dry thickets. {Spreadborough) A not un- 

 common summer resident all over western Ontario. {W. E. 

 Saunders) Uncommon; but perhaps considered more so than it 

 really is as the bird is such an adept at keeping out of sight. 

 Still if one knows their haunts and reaches them about i8th to 

 24th May he may see a few if he will only sit down close to the 

 ground and keep quiet; though on walking through one of their 

 favourite retreats one can be almost sure to hear the warning or 



