Mr. E. Adams on the Birds of Michalaski. 423 



Black-cap Titmouse. Parus atricapillus, Linn. 



Chik-a-ki-perc, Eski. 



\Pa7'us atricapillus, Dall & Bann, p. 280.] 



A few Black-cap Tits were to be seen all the winter about 

 the patches of dwarf birch and willow on the hill-sides. I 

 could not learn that they breed here, nor did I see any during 

 the summer ; but they probably remain all the year. 



The Yellow Wagtail. Motacilla flava, Linn. 



[Budytes flava, Dall & Bann. p. 277 ; Baird, torn. cit. 

 p. 312.] 



This beautiful bird makes its appearance in the beginning 

 of June, and very soon commences to build. I found a few 

 on the 5th of June, which were feeding about the tops of 

 some willow-bushes, and in the marsh near them. On the 

 12th I found the first nest ; it was placed amongst the grass 

 on the steep bank of a ravine, in a small hollow, so that the 

 nest was completely embedded in earth. It was lined with 

 bents and hair. It contained six eggs, of a pale brownish 

 white colour, rather darker at the large end, where there 

 were a few faint streaks of brown. I afterwards found other 

 nests placed in similar situations. 



American Barn-S wallow. Hirundo americana, Wilson. 



Jo-lu-kar-ndr-uk, Eski. 



\_Hirundo horreorum. Barton ; Dall & Bann. p, 279.] 



Early on the morning of the 31st of May, 1851, eight or 

 ten of these birds arrived at Michalaski. 1 had been wander- 

 ing about the neighbourhood the whole of the previous day, 

 and did not meet with one of them ; so that they must have 

 journeyed in a flock. They immediately set to work about 

 repairing their old nests, which were placed in an old out- 

 house, under the eaves of the buildings, and in some of the loop- 

 holes for musketry in the block-houses. When they find a 

 horizontal surface on which to build, the nest is always very 

 slight and shallow ; but those under the eaves are large 

 and well built, very much resembling those of Hirundo 

 urbica, but open at the top. There were so many old nests 

 that very few of them built new ones, merely repairing and 



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