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brambles and ferns near some large woods. It was a somewhat 

 loosely built structure of weeds, leaves and dry grass, lined with 

 some fibres and black hair hardly 12 inches above the ground and 

 well concealed. {Rev. C.J. Young.) 



MUSEUM SPECIMENS. 



''Four; one purchased with the Holman collection in 1885; three 

 taken in Algonquin Park, Ont., in May, 1900, by Mr. W. Spread- 

 borough. 



680. Tolmie's Warbler. 



Geothlypis tolmiei (Towns.) Stone. 1899. 

 A single specimen of this species was secured in the Rocky 

 Mountains in August, near Chief Mountain. {Coues.) Quite 

 common in the brush along the upper branches of Swift Current 

 Creek in the east end of the Cypress Hills, Assa.; a nest was 

 taken on June 25th, 1894, it was placed under the root of a 

 turned-up tree on a few dead sticks about six inches from the 

 ground and contained four eggs nearly hatched; nest very bulky, 

 composed of reeds, lined with a little horse hair and dry grass; on 

 June nth, 1895, this species was taken at Wood Mountain Post, 

 Assa., and seen at Medicine Lodge, near the 49th parallel a few days 

 later; very common in all the wooded ravines on the south side of 

 the Cypress Hills, a nest was taken on the 26th June along a creek 

 in the hills; seen on the West Butte, Sweet Grass Hills and at 

 Waterton Lake, on the 49th parallel, in July, 1895; quite common 

 and breeding at Banff, Rocky Mountains, in the summer of 1891; 

 first seen at Edmonton, Alta., June 3rd, 1897, "ot common, found 

 chiefly along the high banks back of the river where there is 

 plenty of dead brush, they breed here without doubt ; observed 

 from Lesser Slave Lake to Peace River Landing in June, 1903; seen 

 in the foothills south of Crow's Nest Pass; seen at Revelstoke,B.C., 

 May 2ist, 1890; they soon became common close to the ground 

 and commencd to breed, later they were found at Deer Park and 

 Robson, on the Columbia River, where they were common; occa- 

 sional on the north bank of the Thompson at Kamloops in June, 

 1889; abundant in low woods at Agassiz, B.C., after May 9th, 1889; 

 abundant at Chilliwack, B.C., in the spring of 1902; none were 

 se^n in the autumn; first observed two males near Victoria, Van- 

 couver Island, May 9th, 1893; by the nth of the month they were 



