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596. Black-headed Grosbeak. 



Habia melanocephala (Swains.) Stejn. 1884. 



Nest with three fresh eggs and male secured by me June i6th, 

 1905, near Maple creek, Sask. Dr. Bishop saw another pair on 

 Maple creek, July 5th, 1906. On Mackay creek, July nth, Dr. 

 Dwight and he secured a pair of birds and two eggs. {A. C. Bent.) 

 One or two taken and others seen and heard near High river, Alta. in 

 June, 1903 and 1906. (W. E. Saunders.) Not uncommon through 

 British Columbia to the coast; heard in the woods at Revelstoke, 

 B.C., May 26th, 1890; breeding in the valley of Pass creek at Robson, 

 B.C., June, 1890; a female shot on May 31st; only observed a pair, 

 which were breeding, near Trail in the summer of 1902; a rare 

 species at Spence Bridge, B.C.; seen at Hastings and Agassiz in the 

 Fraser River valley, where it was not uncommon in May, 1889; 

 abundant at Chilli wack in the spring of 190 1; a few seen later at 

 McGuire's a few miles up the river; one seen about 14 miles south of 

 Hope, B.C., June 24th, 1905, and several along the Chilliwack river 

 in 1906. (Spreadborough.) A common summer resident on Van- 

 couver island at Victoria and Comox; nests were taken at Lost 

 lake, near Victoria, May 21st, 1887, they were placed in the crotches 

 of Pyrus rivularis; at Nanaimo a nest found in Prunus emarginata. 

 (Macoun.) Common summer resident of the coast region; breeds; 

 arrived about May ist. (Streator.) A summer resident east and 

 west of the Coast range. (Fannin.) Common summer resident 

 at Chilliwack. (Brooks.) Breeding at Agassiz, B.C., May 14th, 

 1897. (E. F. G. White.) 



CCXXXIV. GUIRACA Swainson 1827. 



597. Blue Grosbeak. 



Guiraca coerulea (Linn.) Swains. 1827. 



One specimen shot at Four-mile House, near Halifax, N.S. 

 (Dozens.) On the 7th May, 1862, both sexes of this bird were 

 noticed at Mille Vaches, lower St. Lawrence, Que., by Mr. Peverley, 

 Sr. ; they were accompanied in the same tree by the little indigo 

 bunting. (Couper in Can. Nat., Vol.;^VIL,'i862.) 



