CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS. 67I 



A moderately common summer resident around Ottawa. 

 {Ottawa Naiuralist,Wo\.W.) Not uncommon in Leeds Co., Ont. 

 There is a large woodland tract south of Lansdowne, Ont., and 

 not far from the St. Lawrence where they are quite common and 

 breed; I found a nest in 1883, early in May, and have heard sev- 

 eral singing there together in April ; I noticed one specimen on 

 the Magdalen Islands. {Rev. C. J. Young.) A common species 

 and breeds in Parry Sound and Muskoka districts, Ont. (/. H. 

 Fleming.) Common along Moose River to Moose Factory ; none 

 seen further north; common everywhere in thick dark woods in 

 Algonquin Park, Ont. {Spreadborough.) On March 17th, 1894, a 

 male of this species was taken at Toronto and I have every reason 

 to think that he had wintered here. (/. Hughes-Samuel.) An 

 uncommon summer resident in the deep cedar swamps around 

 London, Ont. Much less numerous than formerly. {W. E. 

 Saunders.) Common summer resident at Guelph, Ont. ; arrives 

 about April 4th and leaves about October 6th. {A. B. Klugk.) 



Summer resident in the thick woods in eastern Manitoba ; has 

 been seen as far west as Portage la Prairie. {Thompson- Seton.) A 

 rare summer visitor at Avenue, Manitoba. {Norman Criddle.) 



Breeding Notes. — This species breeds in June at Scotch Lake, 

 N.B. The nest is well hidden in upturned roots of overturned 

 trees. Eight eggs are generally laid. {W. H. Moore ^ In the 

 woods near Lake Nominingue, about iqo miles north of Ottawa 

 two nests were found imbedded in green rnoss on the ground, and 

 another on the side of a fallen tree. The entrances were about 

 an inch in diameter and the interiors were empty spheres lined 

 with a few grasses. {Garneau) *I have found this species breed- 

 ing at Long Branch, west of Toronto, at Rice Lake and near Port 

 Hope and at Waterloo, Ont.; a favorite nesting place is in the 

 root of some fallen tree; it lays six to seven eggs, finely spotted 

 at the largest end with dark brown. {W. Raine.) There were a 

 few years ago some large woods in the front of the township of 

 Lansdowne, Ont.; a creek ran through them, and here the winter 

 wren was quite common and bred ; I once found its nest, which 

 was built in a cavity of a stump, about a foot fronj the ground; it 

 was early in May before the bird laid her eggs, but at that time 

 the nest was really completed, being a large globular ball of moss 

 with a small hole near the top. {Rev. C.J. Young.) 

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