CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS. 7II 



A rare summer migrant at Ottawa. {Ottawa Na^ralist, Vol. V.) 

 I have only noticed this bird once in eastern Ontario. I picked 

 up a dead bird by the roadside near Lansdowne about the end of 

 April, 1898. {Rev. C.J. Young.) A common summer resident in 

 Parry Sound and Muskoka districts. {J. H.Fleming.) Abundant 

 everywhere in Algonquin Park, Ont., in the summer of 1900. 

 {Spreadborou^h^ A passing migrant at Guelph, Ont. {A.B.Klugh.) 

 The song of this species was heard at Bull Head Point, Lake 

 Winnipeg, on the morning of June i6th. The birds were rather 

 common at Norway House, and were seen or heard daily between 

 there and Oxford House. They were common at Oxford House 

 and a specimen was taken at that point; while descending the 

 streams between Oxford House and York Factory we found them 

 abundant; every wooded islet in the lakes seemed to be the home 

 of a pair, and wherever we •camped we heard their songs, which 

 ' began soon after midnight ; a nest found in a bush overhanging 

 Jack River, between Knee and Swampy lakes, July 6th, contained 

 eggs on the point of hatching. At York Factory, where we took 

 two specimens, the species was apparently less abundant, and 

 beyond that point we did not meet with it. Baird recorded a 

 specimen collected at Moose Factory in July, i860, by Drexler. 

 {E. A. Preble.) After giving a number of references regarding 

 the occurrence of this bird in Manitoba, Mr. Thompson-Seton 

 says he is disposed to question them all. Yet he speaks of its 

 occurrence at Carberry, Manitoba, and apparently breeding; while 

 not giving an opinion I may say that both this form and the gray- 

 cheeked thrush were taken in the spring of 1892 at Indian Head, 

 Assa.; first seen on May j6ih, 1894, at Medicine Hat, Assa.,; the 

 next day they were abundant and in a day or two there were only 

 a few stragglers left, a few remained to breed as they were seen 

 later; a few were observed at Old Wives' Creek, Assa., in the latter 

 part of May, 1895 ; abundant from the mouth of Lesser Slave 

 River to Peace River Landing, June, 1903; first seen at Edmonton, 

 Alta., May 8th, 1897; afterwards it became common and nests and 

 eggs were taken; common from Edmonton to the Athabasca Pass, 

 in June, 1898; common in the foothills south of Calgary to Crow's 

 Nest Pass ; this was a common summer resident at Banff, Rocky 

 Mountains, in 1891 ; a few seen at Deer Park, Columbia River, 

 and breeding in -numbers at Robson late in June, i8go; first seen at 

 Elko, B.C., May 14th, 1904; common by the 21st. {Spreadborou^h.) 



