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NOKTH AMERICAN FAUNA. 



[NO. 27. 



The specimens sent by him to the Smithsonian include sets of eggs 

 taken at Rendezvous Lake, June 28, 1864, and on the lower Anderson 

 in June, 1865. Baird recorded specimens from Fort Resolution, Fort 

 Rae, Big Island, Fort Simpson, Fort Good Hope, Fort Anderson, and 

 Peel River.'^ Sharpe lists skins from Fort Good Hope and Great 

 Bear Lake.^ The earliest date for Fort Simpson recorded in the cata- 

 logue of the birds in the National Museum collection is May 22. 

 Macoun states that J. M. Macoun saw two or three on the Athabaska 

 near Lesser Slave River [in 1888], and that Spreadborough saw one 

 at the upper crossing of Lobstick Creek, west of Edmonton, in June, 

 1898.^ Seton notes the species from Artiller}^ Lake, wdiere a female 

 was seen feeding young on August 5, 1907.^ 



J. Alden Loring took a specimen at Edmonton, September 25, 

 1894. 



Dendroica virens (Gmel.). Black-throated Green Warbler. 



This bird was found by us only on a wooded island near the out- 

 let of Athabaska Lake, where we encamped during the first few days 

 of June, 1901. Here we saw several in dense spruce woods June 3, 

 collecting a pair, and also saw one June 4. The males were in full 

 song, and the birds were evidently located on their breeding grounds. 



Among his records for this warbler, Macoun says : 



First seen at Edmonton, Alta., May 15, 1897 ; common in spruce woods by 

 May 22; breeding in the woods; one pair seen at Peace River Landing in 

 latitude 56° 15', in June, 1903. (Spreadborough.) ^ 



Dendroica townsendi (Towns.). Townsend Warbler. 



This western species probably occurs regularly as a migrant in 

 western Alberta, A male, evidently a bird of the year, was taken by 

 J. Alden Loring at Banff, August 28, 1894. 



Dendroica palmarum (Gmel.). Palm Warbler. 



This warbler has been taken at a number of points north to the 

 upper Mackenzie. In 1901 I saw one or two in a mixed flock of 

 small migrants at Fort Chipewyan, May 23. We noted it elsewhere 

 at but one place — on Slave River about 125 miles below Fort Smith — 

 where I took a pair in scattering woods at the edge of a marsh, 

 July 2. 



In the summer of 1903 Alfred E. Preble and Merritt Gary found 

 this species rather common at Fort Providence, noting two on July 

 6, six on July 7, and two July 8. At this place they took a number of 



« Rev. Am. Birds, p. 193, April, 1865. 



» Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., X, p. 327, 1885. 



<^ Cat. Canadian Birds, Part III, p. 617, 1904. 



^Auk, XXY, p. 73, 1908. 



^ Cat. Canadian Birds, Part III, p. 620, 1904. 



