CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS. 669 



"the owner. If the hole chance to be in the least a loose fit, his 

 first care is to blockade the doorway with the largest twigs he can 

 carry until he has reduced it to his own idea of snugness; and I 

 learned to accept it as the infallible doorplate of a wren's home- 

 stead when a bundle of twigs was seen projecting from a cranny 

 in some decrepit looking stump, hollow rail or a knot-hole in an 

 outhouse. {Thompson-Seton) A common summer resident at 

 Avenue, Manitoba ; arrives about September 20th. {Norman 

 Criddle.) First seen at Medicine Hat, Assa., May 15th, 1894, 

 common by the 20th; abundant at Crane Lake, Skull Creek 

 and east end of Cypress Hills in June, breeding in holes in 

 poplar trees and an occasional telegraph pole at Crane Lake; 

 this species was found breeding in holes in trees at Old 

 Wives' Lakes, Assa., and at Wood Mountain, in June, 1895; later, 

 another nest was taken in a hole in a clay bank along French- 

 man's River, Assa.; not rare in the wooded ravines on the south 

 side of the Cypress Hills; a nest was taken built in a barn swal- 

 -low's nest on Sucker Creek, which is the source of Frenchman's 

 JRiver; it was common on Spur Creek, Milk River, Milk River 

 Ridge, St. Mary's River and Lee's Creek, southern Alberta; com- 

 mon from the mouth of Lesser Slave River to Peace River Land- 

 ing; breeding in holes in trees and in the sandstone cliffs and cut 

 banks of Peace River, Lat. 56° 15' in June, 1903; observed from 

 Edmonton to Athabasca Pass in June, 1898; first seen at Edmon- 

 ton, Alta., May 6th, 1897; o" June 8th found a nest with seven 

 eggs in a hole in a birch stub about six feet from the ground, nest 

 built of sticks and lined with feathers, eggs quite fresh; on the 

 nth took another nest in a poplar stub about four feet from the 

 ground, nest same as before; common south of Calgary in the 

 foothills in June and July; rare at Banff, Rocky Mountains, and 

 breeding in holes in trees in June, 1891; shot at Revelstoke, B.C., 

 May 3rd, 1890; a few pairs were breeding at Robson, B.C.; a nest 

 was taken out of a hollow tree on Pass Creek, 700 feet above the 

 Columbia River, June 20th, 1890; observed a few at Trail, on the 

 ■Columbia River, near the 49th parallel; breeding in holes, in 

 houses and trees in the summer of 1902. {Spreadborougk.) One 

 specimen of this wren was procured by Mr. Drummond at the foot 

 of the Rocky Mountains, but no others were seen by any of us 

 to the eastward. {Rickar'dson.) Frequently seen at Prince Albert, 

 -Sask., in summer. {Coubeaux.) 



