676 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA. 



Island, above the Victoria Bridge. I found a pair nesting in the 

 bullrushes and rank herbage at the mouth of Laprairie. {Wi?ttle.)t 



A common summer resident around Ottajva. {Ottawa Natur- 

 alist, Vol. V.) One of the commonest birds in eastern Ontario 

 about the St. Lawrence below Kingston. Sometimes remaining 

 until the middle of September. (Rev. C.J. Young.) A common 

 resident of marshes in eastern Manitoba. Mr. Hunter has noticed 

 it from Selkirk to Souris, particularly at Shoal Lake, north of 

 Winnipeg, where they appear to be very common. I have never 

 seen it at Carberry nor on the upper Assiniboine. (Thompson- 

 Seton.) A tolerably common summer resident at Aweme, Mani- 

 toba. {Norman Criddle.) Apparently a rare spring migrant at 

 Indian Head, Assa. Only one individual seen June iSth, 1892. 

 (i>preadborough.) Three specimens of this species were setured at 

 Chemawawin near the Grand Forks of the Saskatchewan. 

 {Nutting.) 



Breeding Notes. — Builds a large bulky nest in reeds in 

 marshes around Ottawa. The nest is made of tops of grasses 

 and reeds worked into a' ball with a hole in one side, lined with 

 fine grass. Eggs, 6 to 8, of a rich dark chocolate or so spotted with 

 chocolate as to make the ground colour appear to be chocolate. 

 {G. R. White.) Breeds abundantly in the marsh behind my house 

 at Kew Beach, Toronto. {W. Raine) 



MUSEUM SPECIMENS. 



Two; both taken at Ottawa, one by the writer in May, 1888, 

 and the other by Dr F- A. Saunders, July gth, 1890. 



One set of six eggs taken in Toronto marsh in June, 1886, and 

 presented by Mr. W. Raine. 



725a. Tule Wren. 



Telmatodytes palustris paludicola (Baird) Ridgw. 1877. 

 Rather common in Burnaby Lake about three miles from New 

 Westminster, B.C., in April, 1889. There were many nests, both 

 old and new, built securely to bullrushes {Scirpus lacustris) stand- 

 ing in the water. All the nests were oven-shaped and evidently 

 the lake was the home of a large colony; in the summer of 1901 

 two individuals were seen in a peat bog at Huntington, B.C., on 

 the 49th parallel; first seen at Penticton, south of Lake Okana- 



