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567. Junco hyemalis (Linn.)- Slate-colored Jiinco. 



This species breeds in the forest and to the bonier of the Barrens, 

 wliere several birds, nests, and eggs were secured. These were always 

 on the ground and made of tine hay lined witli deer hair. Four and 

 five eggs were the usual numbers found in them. 



585. Passerella iliaca (Merrem). Fox Sparrow. 



Tolerably common on both banks of the Anderson, and two or three 

 nests were also discovered in the vicinity of a small stream nan.ed 

 Swan River, in the Barren Grounds. Most of the nests were built on 

 trees, and they resembled those of Turdus alicia\ but a few found on 

 the ground, however, were composed of coarse dry grass, lined with 

 some of a finer quality, a few deer hairs, and a sprinkling of fresh moss. 

 The complement of eggs varies from four to five. 



612. Petrochelidon lunifrons (Say). Cliff Swallow. 



In 1850, abont one hundred and sixty nests of these Swallows were, 

 for the first time, built under the eaves of the three principal buildings 

 of Fort Good Hope, Mackenzie lliver, but, as many of the young were 

 destroyed by Indian boys, only one hundred nests were constructed at 

 tlie same place the following season. In 180G a bird of this species was 

 observed closely examining the eaves of the houses at Fort Anderson, 

 but, probably not finding them suitable or in consequence of having 

 been rudely disturbed b^' an Indian boy throwing stones thereat, it 

 flew away and never returned. They however breed in large num- 

 bers along the banks of the Lockhart and Anderson Rivers, whence 

 several examples were obtained. 



616. Clivicola riparia (Liuu.j. Bank Swallow. 



This species is to be met with in considerable numbers during the 

 season of niditication. It builds its nests in holes in sandy clayey banks 

 on Anderson River. Several birds and eggs were taken, but, not being 

 in much request, their collection was discouraged. 



618. Ampelis garriilus Liiiii. liohemian Waxwing. 



Up to 1874 "tiie only instances on record of the discovery of the 

 eggs of this interesting bird in America were those of a nest and one 

 egg taken, by the late Mr. Kennicott, at Fort Youkon, Alaska, in 1861, 

 and of a nest and Qgg found the same season in a pine tree on Ander- 

 son River, iu about latitude 08^ north. Both are now in the Smith- 

 sonian Institution at Washington.'' Several skins of the bird were 

 obtained at Fort Anderson in ISiJi', but the most diligent search failed 

 to secure any more nests or eggs. 



