The Yellow-breasted Chat a»d Streamer Re db ird in Canada. — On the 
16th of May, 1884. I found the dead body of an olive-backed bird lying on 
the ground. The maggots fell from it as 1 took it up, but it was still in 
condition to show that had I found it a few days sooner I would have 
added to my collection a perfect specimen of the Yellow-breasted Chat 
f Icteria Virens). The bird had evidently been killed bv flying against 
the telegraph wires which pass near where it was found. 
Ten days later, when visiting Mr. Dickson, station master of the Grand 
Trunk Railway at Waterdown, he pointed out to me an old unused mill- 
race, grown up with briars and brambles, where the day previous he had 
seen a pair of Chats mated. Mr. Dickson was collecting at the time, and 
was surprised at their suddenly appearing within ten feet of him, but on 
his trying to get to a safer shooting distance they disappeared in the thicket 
and did not again become visible, though they kept continually scolding 
at him. These are the only records I have of this species being noticed 
in Canada. 
Auk, I, Oct., 1884. p. 39^ CO . 
On June 6, when about a mile farther up the Point, the writer heard a 
strange note, and at every search for the author found an Orchard Oriole, 
and, not being very familiar with that bird, attributed the note to it. 
Shortly afterward Mr. Bailey arrived at the same place, and called out, 
“ Did you hear the Chat? ” Instantly every one was on the qni vive, and 
after some time a glimpse of the bird was obtained, but not the bird itself 
A hunt for it on the two following days was finally rewarded by the cap- 
ture of a fine female Yellow-breasted Chat, with ovaries as large a sa pea. 
Further search resulted in nothing more than this, the first capture in 
Canada; and though we looked carefully, we did not even find the begin- 
ning of a nest. Reference has already been made in ‘The Auk’ to the 
remains of a specimen of this species that Mr. Thos. Mcllwraith picked 
up at Hamilton, Ont. No doubt they are regular summer visitors at Pelee 
Island, Point Pelee, and some places along the shore of Lake Erie. 
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Auk, 2,. July, 1385. p. 
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27. Icteria virens. Yellow-breasted Chat. — Mr. John Boyd, of 
Sarnia, has a specimen which he believes was taken at the Humber in 1889, 
but he was never able to trace the bird back to the original collector. 
