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wards, when visiting Mr. Dickson, who is station-master on the 

 G.T.R. at Waterdown, he pointed out to me an old, unused mill- 

 race, grown up with briars and brambles, where the day before he 

 had seen a pair of chats mated. Mr. Dickson was collecting at 

 the time, and was greatly surprised at their sudden appearance 

 within ten feet of where he was standing, but on his moving back- 

 ward, with a view of getting to a safer shooting distance, they 

 disappeared in the thicket and did not again become visible^ 

 though they kept up their scolding, as long as he remained near 

 the place. A pair of this species was also found by Mr. Saunders 

 breeding on the north shore of Lake Erie, near Point Pelee, which 

 completes the record for Ontario, so far as I have heard. {Mc- 

 Ilwraith.) 



MUSEUM SPECIMEN. 



One specimen purchased with the Holman collection in 1885. 



683a. Long-tailed Chat. 



Icteria virens longicauda (Lawr.) Coues. 1872. 

 In the bushes which line the banks of the Thompson River, 

 below Asbcroft, B.C., I secured two males of this species; another 

 was heard singing on a ranch above the town. {Rkoads.) From 

 Kamloops south through the Okanagan district of B.C. {Fannin.) 

 Sumas, in the Fraser River valley, 26th May, 1897. {Brooks) 



CCXXXII. WILSONIA Bonap. 1838. 

 ^84. Hooded Warbler. 



Wikonia mitrata (Gmel.) Bonap. 1838. 

 Mr. Nerval reports finding this species occasionally, at Port 

 Rowan, on the north shore of Lake Erie, and I once found a 

 young male near Hamilton, Ont. It was found towards the end 

 of May when there had been a big bird-wave the previous night, 

 and this one had been apparently carried away in the crowd. 

 {Mcllwraith.) A specimen of this warbler, rare in Ontario, was 

 captured at Cataraqui, nea'r Kingston, Ont., and is now in the 

 ■collection of a resident there. {Rev. C.J. Young.) 



museum specimen. 

 One purchased with the Holman collection in 1885. 



