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filled the valley.] I believe that a colony, or more than one, of 

 these birds exists on the eastern slope of the Rocky mountains, 

 and doubtless are permanent residents; saw a large flock on Lake 

 mountain, east of the Columbia river, on the International Boun- 

 dary, B.C., November 3rd, 1902; saw three near the summit of the 

 Rocky mountains in the Athabaska pass, July nth, 1898; also a 

 flock of about fifty on the Brazeau river, September 24th, said to stay 

 in the mountains all winter. (Spreadborough.) This elegant bird 

 has only lately been detected in America, having been discovered in 

 the spring of 1826 near the sources of the Athabaska river by Mr. 

 Drummond, and by myself the same season at Great Bear lake, in 

 lat. 65°; it appears in great flocks at Great Bear lake about the 

 24th May, when it feeds on the berries of the alpine arbutus and 

 marsh vaccinium; it stays only a few days; none of the Indians 

 knew where it nests, but I have reason to believe that it is in the 

 mountain limestone districts in lat. 67° or 68°. (Richardson.) I 

 have been informed by Mr. John Hope, a resident at Fort Frank- 

 lin on Great Bear lake that these birds build in numbers in the 

 vicinity; but so high up on the trees that the eggs are very diffi- 

 cult to obtain; a specimen was shot at Fort Liard in February 

 which leads me to believe that it is a winter resident. (Ross.) 

 An egg and nest of this bird were found in a pine tree on the Ander- 

 son river in 1861 in about lat. 68°. Several skins were obtained 

 at Fort Anderson in 1862, but the most careful search failed to 

 produce any nests. (Macfarlane.) Shot only east of the Coast 

 range. (Lord.) A resident chiefly east of Coast range and Rocky 

 mountain district; a rare winter visitor on Vancouver island. 

 (Fannin.) Abundant in some winters in Chilliwack and entirely 

 absent in others; abundant at Lake Okanagan, B.C., in the winter of 

 1897-98, but less so the next winter; breeds. (Brooks.) Saw 

 numbers of large flocks up the Columbia from Golden, B.C., De- 

 cember 17th, 1899; and numbers up the Nicola, February 23rd, 

 1898. (E. F. G. White.) 



On August 20th, 1899, the day we arrived at our winter camp 

 on the Kowak, Cook inlet, Alaska, I saw a flock of 50 waxwings 

 in a bunch of spruce trees, but none afterwards. (Grinnell.) Three 

 adults were seen at Moose camp, Alaska, October 8th, 1903. (Ander- 

 son.) There is no record of this bird's occurrence anyivhere along the 

 shores of Behring sea on the arctic; in the interior, however, it 



