from the Alix and Buffalo Lake Districts. 689 



Riparia riparia. Bank-Swallow. 



A few pairs nested in a railway-cutting near Haunted 

 Lakes in June. 



Bombycilla garrula. Bohemian Waxwing. 



Dr. Henry George informed me that a pair of these birds 

 nested this year in a garden at Red Deer, and Mr. George 

 Cook has a skin which was obtained near Buffalo Lake 

 on January 19 this year; he had also found a nest on 

 June 8, with tour young birds, in same locality. One was 

 dead in the nest, but the rest were ready to fly. He further 

 stated that these birds were plentiful during January and 

 September. 



Troglodytes aedon parkmani. Western House- Wren. 



Fairly abundant. On June 23 I was shown a nest which 

 had been built in the string-box attached to a reaping 

 machine. It was a very bulky structure made of small twigs, 

 plentifully lined with fowls' feathers and horse-hair. It 

 contained six eggs. I found another nest, near Alix, which 

 was merely a collection of a few feathers and horse-hairs 

 built in a hole in a small decayed poplar-tree, and another in 

 June in a large stump which held young birds. 



Telmatodytes palustris iliacus. Prairie Marsh- Wren. 



Mr. Atkinson and 1 found numerous nests of this species 

 in the reeds around Buffalo Lake, but none held eggs. The 

 birds, nevertheless, were always very noisy but shy. 



Penthestes hudsonius hudsonius. Hudsonian Chickadee. 



A common resident. Except in the nesting-season tliey 

 keep in small flocks and are very tame. I found a nest with 

 young in a hole in a dead poplar, about three feet from the 

 ground, near the house on May 30. 



Planesticus migratorius propinquus. Western Robin. 

 Plentiful around Alix, but I failed to observe any at 

 Buffalo Lake. I saw many young birds but no nests. 



