CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS. 341 
seen on the Columbia River, about eight miles below Deer Park, 
B.C., June 18th, 1890; not rare at Trail and Cascade, B.C., in the 
summer of 1902; taken at Sicamous, Kamloops and Agassiz in 
1889. One pair seen at Chilliwack, B.C., May 27th, 1901. (Spread- 
borough.) This species finds its northern limit in British Columbia 
afew miles south of Clinton. It ranges east in the breeding season 
to the Selkirk Mountains. I did not find it onthe coast. (Rhoads.) 
Vancouver Island and throughout British Columbia. (Lord.) Not 
common on the coast, but more abundant in the interior. 
(Streator.) East and west of Coast Range, but chiefly on the 
mainland; found breeding at Ashcroft. (fannin.) Summer 
resident ; tolerably common at Chilliwack. (Bvooks.) 
BREEDING Notes.—In the Red River region 7. carolinensis alone 
represents the genus; but throughout the Upper Missouri and 
Milk River country the two are found together, and it is hard to 
say which is the most numerous. They have much the same 
general habits and often associate intimately together ; indeed, J, 
have known one tree to contain nests of both species. The cries 
of verticals are louder and harsher, with less of a sibilant 
quality, than those of the king-bird ; but there is little else to note 
as different. The nests of the verticalis are bulky and conspicu- 
ous, all the more easily found because the bird has a way of leaving 
the general woods of the river bottom to go up to the ravines 
that make down from the hillsides, and there nest on some isolated 
tree, miles away, perhaps, from any landmark. Taking nests of 
both species at the same time, I found that those of verticalis 
were generally distinguishable by their larger size and softer make, 
with less fibrous and more fluffy material ; but the eggs, if mixed 
together, could not be separated with any certainty. The sets of 
eggs taken during the latter part of June consisted of from three to 
six. Eggs were found as late as the second week of July. The 
nests were placed in trees at a height of from five or six to forty 
or fifty feet, generally in the crotch of a horizontal limb, at some 
distance from the main trunk ; but in one case a nest was placed 
in the crotch which the first large bough made with the trunk. In 
one case a pair of the flycatchers built in the same tree that con- 
tained the nest of Swainson’s buzzard, and both kinds of ‘birds 
were incubating at peace with each other, if not with all the world, 
when I came along to disturb them. In another one they nested 
with a pair of king-birds. The birds display admirable courage in 
