CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS. 687 



brown, chiefly towards the larger end. {G.R. White.) Nests in 

 marshy thickets around Ottawa. On April i8th, 1903, a pair of 

 birds was seen digging a hole in a fence post and on the 8th June, 

 1903, a nest with six young was discovered in a small stump. The 

 opening, 18 inches from the ground, was one inch in diameter ; 

 the nest was a mixture of short hairs, green moss and feathers, and 

 was at a depth of six inches in the stump. {Garneau.) A common 

 lesident in Ontario; it breeds in a hole of a stub excavated usually 

 by the bird itself about the middle of May, I have seen fresh eggs 

 on the 15th of the month. In its habit of excavating a hole for 

 itself it resembles the European marsh titmouse, the only one of 

 the titmice that does so. In its note and otherwise it closely 

 resembles this species (Parus palustris). Though during spring 

 and summer it is a bird of the woods, in cold winter weather it 

 approaches the homes and outbuildings; the present winter (1904) 

 this was especially the case. \Rev. C.J. Young!) 



MUSEUM SPECIMENS. 



Ten; two taken at Ottawa by Mr. G. R. White in April, 1894; 

 three at Ottawa by Dr. F. A. Saunders, in September, 1890; one 

 by the writer, May 4th, 1888; one at London, Ont., by Mr. W. E. 

 Saunders, Nov. i6th, 1886; two at Bracebridge, Ont., March 12th, 

 1892, by Mr. W. Spreadborough. 



Two sets of eggs; one set of four taken at Emsdale, Muskoka, 

 Ont., May 28th, 1893, by Mr. J. H. Fleming and presented to the 

 museum; one of six taken at Wolfville, N.S., by Mr. Harold 

 Tufts, May 15th, 1897, "^st, placed in the bottom of a hole in a 

 small birch stump, composed of rootlets and hair. 



735a. Long-tailed Chickadee. 



Parus atricapillus septentrionahs (Harris) Allen. 1872. 

 One taken an the Lower Echiraamish, June 24th, 1901 {E. A. 

 Preble?) A specimen of this form was procured at Chief Moun- 

 tain Lake, Rocky Mountains, on August 28th, 1874. {Coues.) 

 Resident in Manitoba in wooded sections. The Manitoba bird is 

 not strictly j^//^«/no««/M but is nearer to that form than to atri- 

 capillus. {Thompson-Seton.) A common breeding resident at 

 Aweme, Manitoba. {Norman Criddle.) Only one individual was seen 

 in a three months' residence at Indian Head, Assa., in the spring of 



