CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS. 381 
wings and striking various coquettish attitudes, but the latter would 
quickly turn upon him, as if to repel his advances at such a serious 
time. Then both birds would pause for a moment within six 
inches of each other, with their beaks wide open, and mayhap 
a snap or two. The nest proper was built on a loose foundation 
of slender spruce twigs. The walls and bottom consisted of a 
closely felted mass of a black hair-like lichen, many short bits of 
spruce twigs, feathers of ptarmigan and hawk owls, strips of a 
fibrous bark and a few grasses. The interior is lined with the 
softest and finest grained material. The whole fabric is of sucha 
quality as to accomplish the greatest conservation of warmth, 
which certainly must be necessary where incubation is carried on 
in below zero weather. (Joseph Grinnell.) 
484c. Labrador Jay. 
Perisoreus canadensis nigricapillus RipGw. 1882. 
Locally common in northeastern Labrador especially as far 
north as Port Manvers. (Szgelow.) Coastwise and -interior, 
especially abundant ; resident and breeds at Fort Chimo, Labra- 
dor. (fackard.) 
BREEDING Notes.—I have a nest and four eggs of this bird that 
were taken at Hamilton Inlet, Labrador, March 2oth, 1894. The 
nest was built in a larch tree and is a beautiful structure of inter- 
laced twigs, the nest proper being a compact woven felt-like 
structure of fur, hair and feathers. (W. Ratne.) A nest taken by 
Mr. A.P. Low at Rigolet, Hamilton Inlet, Labrador, 25th March, 
1894, is quite a bulky affair. The outside is chiefly made up of 
dead twigs chiefly of tamarac (larch) with a few of white spruce. 
The inside is of down, feathers, hair, fur and strips of the inner 
bark of willow felted together. 
MUSEUM SPECIMENS. 
Two sets of eggs, one of three and the other of four, both 
taken at Rigolet, Hamilton Inlet, Labrador, March 25th, 1894, by 
Min A. P; Low. 
485. Oregon Jay. 
Perisoreus obscurus (RIDGW.) SHARPE, 1877. 
An abundant resident throughout the province. (Fannzn.) 
Common resident on mountains above Chilliwack, B.C. (Bvooks.) 
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