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The first, found June ist, 1902, was fastened, one foot from tip, 

 on to a limb of a small shrubby spruce, three feet from the trunk 

 and six from the ground. The spot chosen was a side hill covered 

 with a growth of young spruce and cedar. The nest, well hidden by 

 an overhanging branch, held four fresh eggs and was composed 

 exteriorally of dead spruce twigs neatly interwoven with yellow 

 birch bark shreds and lined with fine grasses and animal hair. Its 

 inside diameter measured if, outside 3 inches; inside depth, i|, 

 outside, 2^ inches. The well rounded and finished appearance 

 and the predominance of birch bark reminded me of certain vireos' 

 nests. Two nests found later, on June 9th and 29th, were similarly 

 situated and constructed and contained respectively four fresh and 

 one addled egg. The eggs measured uniformly . 66 x . 49, are white, 

 distinctly and obscurely dotted, chiefly at the larger end, with 

 varying shades of rufous brown and lilac and a few distinct spots 

 of black. (L. M. Terr ill.) 



668. Townsend Warbler. 



Dendroica toivnscndi (Towns.) Sclater. 1858. 



A few individuals seen at Revelstoke, B.C., in May, 1890, and 

 a male shot on the 23rd ; one taken at Huntingdon, on the Inter- 

 national Boundary, in September, 1902, the only one seen; first 

 seen on Vancouver island, April 19th, 1893; shortly after they 

 began to nest in the Douglas firs near Victoria. A common sum- 

 mer resident on the island. {Spreadhorough.) British Columbia. 

 {Lord.) A single specimen was collected at Mount Lehman in 

 September. (Streator.) East and west of coast range ; not common. 

 (Fannin.) Migratory at Chilliwack; scarce. (Brooks.) Abun- 

 dant on Vancouver island, but rare east of the Coast range. 

 (Rhoads.) One specimen seen at English bay near Vancouver, B.C., 

 August 8th, 1894. (E. F. G. White.) One taken at Cumshewa inlet. 

 Queen Charlotte islands, June 15th, and five others at Skidegate, 

 July 14th; Mr. Keen found it at Massett and noted its spring arrival 

 from 1891 to 1898. (Osgood.) A single adult female taken at 

 Sitka, Alaska, August 14th, and two others seen at the same time. 

 (Grinnell.) Hartlaub states that this species was once seen by Dr. 

 Krause on May 27th, in conifers of upper Dejah valley, Alaska, 



