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in eastern Ontario. A common breeding bird on Wolfe Island^ 

 near Kingston, Ont. {Rev. C.J. Young.) Mr. Kay records one 

 from Port Sydney, Muskoka, taken on May 7th, 1890; I am sure 

 it occurs at Emsdale, Parry Sound, but liave notbeen able to take 

 one. (/. H. Fleming.) An uncommon summer resident at Guelph, 

 Ont. {A. B. Klugh.) A common summer resident in south-r 

 western Ontario, but noted sparingly in the north ; nests are 

 usually made on the ground, often in a brush heap and sometimes 

 in shrubs. Eggs three or four, rarely five ; two broods are often 

 raised in a season near London, Ont. {W. E. Saufiders.) A com- 

 mon summer resident at Penetanguishene, Ont.; have found their 

 nests situated very near the ground in rose bushes. {A. F. Young!), 



Observed at Pembina which appears to be near the northern' 

 limit of the distribution of this species ; a nest containing four 

 eggs was found at Pembina late in June. (Coues.) A common 

 summer resident of partly open country more especially in the 

 southern sections of Manitoba. {Tkompson-Seton.) A common 

 summer resident at Avenue, Manitoba; arrives about May loth and 

 leaves about the middle of September. {Norman Criddle.) First seen 

 at Medicine Hat, Assa., May 12th, i894,later they came in numbers 

 and by May 22nd were very common, in bushes in the creek and 

 river valleys. May 30th, found a nest with four fresh eggs under a 

 log in a heap of dry brush, nest composed of sticks, lined with 

 dry grass, other nests were taken low down in the brush, in close ■ 

 thickets; one pair was seen late in June in brush along Swift 

 Current Creek in the east end of Cypress Hills ; observed in 

 thickets at Old Wives' Creek, at Wood Mountain and in the 

 Milk River valley and on Milk River Ridge in southen Alberta in 

 1895; observed one individual at Moose Mountain, almost at tim- 

 ber line,about 40 miles southwest of Calgary, July ist 1897; several 

 seen further south on July 15th, near the source of Elbow River. 

 {Spreadborougk.) This species was only seen at Carlton House 

 on the banks of the Saskatchewan where it breeds. {Richardson^ 



Breeding Notes. — A nest built in a small fir six feet from the 

 ground and containing two young birds and three hatched eggs 

 discovered near Ottawa on June 7th, 1903. It was a large nest 

 of branches, ten inches in diameter and lined with bark, grass and 

 leaves. {Gameau^ A nest found near Beechwood cemetery^ 

 Ottawa, was built in a brier patch ; the nest was a large bulky 

 structure of twigs, weed-stalks, dead leaves, strips of bark and 



