190S.] 



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479 



Baird recorded a specimen from La Pierre House ; ^ and Sharpe, 

 one from Fort Simpson.^ Macoun, on the authority of J. M. 

 Macoun. states that a pair was seen at Fort McMurray, and that the 

 species was common on ^Methye Portage, and between there and Isle 

 a hi Crosse [in 1888]. Spreadborough first saw it at Edmonton, 

 Alberta, on May 29. 1897.^ Seton records this warbler from the 

 northern edge of the forest on Artillery Lake, where I collected a 

 sj^ecimen on September 5, 1907.^ 



A specimen in the Xational Museum, taken at Fort Anderson, July 

 10, 1864, is pronounced by H. C. Oberholser to be referable to Wil- 

 sonia pusilla pileolata. 



Wilsonia canadensis (Linn.). Canadian Warbler. 



This warbler is now ascertained to be a regular inhabitant of the 

 lower Athabaska Valley north at least to the mouth of the Clearwater. 



In 1901 the Canadian warbler was detected only on the Athabaska 

 a short distance below Grand Eapid on August 20, when I shot a 

 male in a thicket bordering the river. 



While ascending the Athabaska in the fall of 1903, Alfred E. 

 Preble and Merritt Cary found the species common at Fort McMur- 

 ray, August 8 to 11, and took a male on August 10. Both adults and 

 young were present and the males were still in song. They fre- 

 quented the heavy undergrowth of the poplar woods and were shy 

 and difficult to approach. Several were afterwards observed in the 

 hillside ravines between Grand Rapid and Pelican Portage, August 

 20 to 25. 



In 1904 I observed the species only at Fort McMurray, where I took 

 one on August 11, and saw another August 12. 



Macoun records a specimen taken at Edmonton, Alberta, May 29, 

 1897. by Spreadborough.^ 



Setophaga ruticilla (Linn.). Eedstart. 



The redstart is a rather common summer inhabitant of the Atha- 

 baska and Mackenzie valleys north at least to Fort Norman. In 1901 

 it was first noted at Fort Chipewyan on May 23, when a male was 

 taken, and next on June 1, when a female was collected at the same 

 l^lace. It was found to be rather common at our camp 10 miles below 

 Peace River, June 8 to 10, and a nest containing five fresh eggs was 

 taken on the latter date. The nest was about G feet up in a clump 



« Rev. Am. Birds, p. 241, May, 1865. 



^ Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., X, p. 4.36, 1885. 



^ Cat. Canadian Birds, Part III, p. 64-3, 1904. 



'^Ank, XXV, p. 73, 1908. 



^Cat. Canadian Birds, Part III, p. 647, 1904, 



