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NOKTH AMERICAN FAUNA. 



[NO. 27. 



cade Rapid on the morning of May 28, and others 30 miles below 

 Fort McMurray on May 29. The species was rather common on the 

 lower Athabaska, May 31 to June 1, and during our northward jour- 

 ney was last detected on Rocher River, June 8. On their return 

 trip in the fall Alfred E. Preble and Merritt Gary noted one near 

 Swift Current Rapid, August 28 ; and took a male on the Athabaska 

 above Athabaska Landing on September 10. 



In the spring of 1904 H. W. Jones saw the first one near Fort 

 Providence, May 16, and Jones and Mills took males on May 18 and 

 20. At Fort Simpson I saw the first one May 22, took a pair on 

 May 23, and noted a few May 24, 26, and 27. During my trip down 

 the Mackenzie I met with it only at Fort Norman, collecting one on 

 June 14. On my return trip I saw one at Fort McMurray August 

 12. In 1905 Jones observed it near Fort Providence on May 19. 



A number of specimens of this species were collected at Fort Simp- 

 son by Kennicott and Ross, and one taken at that place by the latter, 

 May 28, 1861, is recorded by Baird." The catalogue of the birds in 

 the National Museum records a specimen (No. 61203) taken by 

 Strachan Jones at Lesser Slave Lake. Russell records one taken at 

 Fort Chipewyan May 26, 1893.^ Macoun states that Spreadborough 

 first noted the species at Edmonton on May 6, 1897, and saw one in- 

 dividual at Peace River Landing in June, 1903.'' 



Helminthophila rubricapilla (Wils.). Nashville" Warbler. 



Richardson figured and described a specimen obtained at Cumber- 

 land House May 15, 1827.^ Ross gave the species as rare north to 

 Fort Resolution, implying its occurrence at that point. ^ Though 

 there is some probability of error in the latter record, the species 

 probably occurs regularly in the southeastern part of our region. 



Helminthophila celata (Say). Orange-crowned Warbler. 



In 1901 this bird was first seen at Fort Chipewyan on May 23. A 

 female was taken at our camp near Point La Brie, May 27, and a male 

 near Fort Chipewyan, June 1. *The species was next seen at Fort 

 Resolution, where a nest containing eggs advanced in incubation was 

 taken, together with the female, on July 9. The nest was placed 

 among thick grass on a sloping bank, and was composed outwardly 

 of grass and Eqiiisetum stems, with a layer of finer grass and with 

 an inner lining of hair. 



In the spring of 1903 the orange-crowned Avarbler was first ob- 

 served on the lower Athabaska, where it was rather common on the 



« Rev. Am. Birds, p. 168, May, 1866. 

 ^ExpL in Far Nortli, p. 268, 1898. 

 «Cat. Canadian Birds, Part III, p. 581, 1904. 

 <^ Fauna Boreali-Americana, II, p. 220, 1831. 

 ^Nat. Hist. Rev., II (second ser.), p. 279, 1862, 



