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tall trees; obsen^ed one at Lake St. Anne, sixty miles from Edmon- 

 ton, Alta., June 8th, 1898; a few were observed from the mouth of 

 Lesser Slave river to Peace River Landing, Alta., in lat. 56° 15', 

 June, 1903; taken at Canmore, Alta., but not rare at Banff on the 

 Bow river within the Rocky mountains, May 27th, 1891, where 

 they were breeding; one seen in the Crow Nest pass in August, 

 1897. {Spreadhorough.) This bird was seen by us only on the 

 banks of the Saskatchewan where it feeds on willow buds. It is a 

 summer visitor, arriving in the month of May. {Richardson.) The 

 single male, secured at the Grand rapids of the Saskatchewan, agrees 

 perfectly with this species. {Nutting.) Not rare at Athabaska 

 Landing and up the Athabaska to Lesser Slave river; a few birds 

 at Fort McMurray, but none seen up the Clearwater river, lat. 56°; 

 not rare but local between Methye portage and Isle a la Crosse, 

 Sask. (/. M. Macoun.) I saw this beautiful finch for the first 

 time at Prince Albert, Sask., last April (1900) and beginning of 

 May in company with juncos and tree sparrows. {Couheaux.) 



Breeding Notes. — Nest, built on a horizontal bough, composed 

 of vegetable matter, fibre and rootlets, lined with hair. Eggs, 

 four, pale dull greenish, almost white, sparsely sprinkled with 

 blackish and lilac. {G. R. White.) On June 8th, 1893, at Banff, 

 Alta., I found a nest and eggs of this species built in a willow bush 

 five feet from the ground. {W. Raine.) A bird that is hardly as 

 plentiful, apparently, in Ontario, as in former years. I have found 

 the nest three times in Ontario, twice in a small spruce tree and once 

 in a cedar. I also saw a nest at Lansdowne, Ont., in a small maple. 

 This is a late breeder, all the eggs I have seen were laid in June. 

 {Rev. C. J. Young.) Breeds in May and June around Ottawa, Ont., 

 also at Lake Nominingue, 100 miles north of it. The nest is built 

 in coniferous trees from five to fifteen feet from the ground and is 

 composed of twigs, rootlets, vegetable down and wool with a lining 

 of hairs. Eggs, four to five in the set. {Garneau.) 



517a. California Purple Pinch. 



Carpodacus purpureus californicus Baird. 1874. 



Abundant summer resident on both sides of the Coast range. 

 {Lord.) Common in the coast region; few specimens were taken 

 in purple plumage. {Streator.) An abundant summer resident 



