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everywhere at Fernie and Elko, B.C., in 1904, and common every- 

 where at Midway, in 1905; common in the same year on mountains 

 between the Skagit river and ChilUwack lake. (Spreadborough.) 

 The junco breeding in the plateau region between the Coast range 

 and the Rockies and migrating south in winter, is evidently separable 

 from the coast form. Specimens referred here were collected at 

 Ashcroft, in June and July, 1889; taken also by Mr. Macfarlane at 

 Stewart lake with its nests and five eggs. (Streator.) Abundant 

 at Lake Okanagan, B.C., in winter. (Brooks.) A female was taken 

 at Glacier in the White pass, June 7th, 1899, and another at White 

 Pass City, June 9th ; others were taken and heard next day, both at 

 Glacier and White Pass City. (Bishop.) 



Breeding Notes. — On May 31st, 1902, found two nests near 

 Trail, B.C.; one with foiir eggs, the other with two; incubation was 

 far advanced. Nests constructed of weeds and grass, lined with 

 hair. Both nests were in a bank overhung with grass; another was 

 found on May 25th in the bank of an old prospect hole with four 

 fresh eggs. Found a nest in a clump of bunch grass at Midway, 

 B.C., May 3, 1905; it was made of grass and lined with fine hair; 

 June 22, saw a nest with four eggs in a bank, under a small bush at 

 the head of Whipsaw creek at an altitude of 6,800 feet. (Spread- 

 borough.) 



568. Mearns Junco. 



Junco mearnsi Ridgway. 1897. 



This form accompanies hyemalis in the migration at Carberry, 

 Manitoba. (E. T. Seton.) Mr. E. T. Seton refers this bird to 

 shujeldti, but having taken mearnsi at Medicine Hat in 1894, and 

 found them breeding in June on the east end of the Cypress hills, 

 about 100 miles southeast of that point, we place his reference under 

 that species. (Macoun.) I secured a female and two young in the 

 Cypress hills, Sask., and a male and one young several miles away 

 on the following day; no others noted. (Bishop.) Quite common 

 at Banff, Rocky mountains, in the summer of 1891 ; nests were taken 

 on Tunnel mountain. They were always placed on the ground 

 beneath a bush or on a slope. Breeds twice in a season at Banff. 

 (Spreadborough.) 



