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mon summer resident at Guelph, Ont.; arrives about May nth, 

 leaves about August 28th. {A. B. Klugh.) 



A summer resident of wooded hillsides in Manitoba, but its 

 habits are not very well known; has been found more frequently 

 to the north of Manitoba. {Thompson-Seton.) A rare summer resid- 

 ent at Avenue, Manitoba ; arrives about May 20th and leaves 

 about the last of August. {Norman Criddle.) A single specimen 

 of this bird was killed in June at Cumberland House; it was in a 

 dense thicket of alder, perched near the ground. {Richardson.) One 

 specimen secured at Grand Rapids and another at Chemawawin, 

 Saskatchewan River. {Nutting.) One specimen taken at Moose 

 Factory, James Bay, by Mr. Walter Haydon, in the summer of 

 1881. {E.A. Prebles.) Not observed anywhere west of Manitoba 

 except at Edmonton, Alta., where a few were observed and one 

 taken May 29th, 1897. {Spreadborough.) 



Breeding Notes. — June 12th, 1902, I found this bird nesting at 

 Rice Lake, Ont. ; nest in a cavity of a fallen tree root in deep 

 woods. {W.Raine.) Nests near Ottawa and at Lake Nominingue, 

 100 miles north of Ottawa, in June and July; it is built on the 

 ground in the woods, and made of dried leaves, lined with fine 

 grass, strips of bark and hairs; the walls are thin for a nest made 

 of leaves. {Garneau.) 



On the 28th May, when passing the " old root " of a fallen tree 

 I discovered the newly made nest of a small bird, which at first I 

 thought might be that of a mourning warbler, whose scolding 

 notes I heard near by; on the 5th June, when I thought the set of 

 eggs would be deposited I revisited the place; on the nest sat the 

 mother bird, and there she remained until I almost touched her 

 with my hand, then she flushed out, making some attempts to draw 

 off my attention, and uttered a few sharp " chips," and I saw at 

 once that she was a Canadian warbler; the nest then contained 

 five eggs, and incubation had begun ; the nest was placed in a 

 cavity among the rocks, only a few inches above the more level 

 earth, and was composed of dry leaves, strips of bark, and other 

 fine vegetable fibres, and lined with some long horse-hair; when 

 placed side by side with that of M. varia previously described, I 

 make this comparison of the nests and their sets of eggs, after the 

 latter are blown; the nests — in composition and size — are very 

 much alike; both are rather loosely put together, but there is quite 



