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common at the south end of Methye portage. (/. M. Macoun.) 

 North to Fort Resolution on the Mackenzie river; rare. (Ross.) 

 There is no doubt but this bird is to be met with during the summer 

 season on the Anderson river, but we found no nests. {Macfarlane.) 

 Seen only east of the Coast range. {Lord.) Found only in the 

 coast region during autumnal migration. (Streator.) Abundant 

 in the district west of the Coast range. (Fannin.) Common 

 winter visitant at Chilliwack; breeds on the mountains. (Brooks.) 

 Numerous on the coast of British Columbia in spring. Breeding 

 in the interior. (Rlwads.) 



This handsome species has been secured from various portions 

 of the territory. The various Alaskan records include Fort Yukon, 

 Nulato, Anvik, in the north, with Sitka and Fort Kenai on the 

 southeastern coast. (Nelson.) Specimens of this bird were 

 obtained from Fort Yukon, where it is common, breeding there. 

 At Nushagak, on Bristol bay, I saw a single specimen of this bird 

 flitting amongst the willows which skirt the river. (Turner.) On 

 the 23rd August, I shot one specimen and saw two others in a 

 willow copse bordering the Kowak, a couple of miles above our 

 winter camp. -I did not see the species again until June loth, in 

 Kowak delta, Kotzebue sound, Alaska. (Grinnell.) 



Breeding Notes. — I have a beautiful nest containing eleven 

 eggs that was taken at Dartmouth, Nova Scotia on June ist, 1898; 

 this nest was suspended from the branch of a black spruce tree, 20 

 feet from the ground; besides this one I have four others taken at 

 the same place and all alike in structure; the nests were round 

 balls of green moss well lined with feathers and were suspended 

 from the branches of spruce trees. (W. Raine.) Breeding near 150- 

 Mile House, B.C. ; on the nth June I found a nest in a small spruce 

 not four feet high; the nest was close to the stem and about two 

 feet from the ground; it was a very deep cup, almost a vertical 

 cylinder; the sitting bird must have been entirely concealed; it 

 contained five eggs, a sixth imperfect one was sticking in the found- 

 ation of the nest; it had evidently been pushed through the lining 

 and a fresh floor built over it ; the owners were raising a great outcry 

 over the intrusion of a wandering brood of "whiskey jacks"; two 

 grouse feathers were carefully put over the entrance to the nest, 

 which made me think that it had been rifled by the jays and the 

 lining pulled out. (Brooks.) 



