388 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA. 
at Binscarth on the upper Assiniboine, I found a crow’s nest in a 
bluff of poplar trees. It was in a crotch of a large poplar, about 
8 feet from the ground, and was one of the most beautiful speci- 
mens of bird architecture I ever examined, excluding, of course, 
all pensile nests. It was a large structure of sticks, twigs and 
bark strips, with a very deep cavity lined with fine fibres and 
beautifully finished off with a coating of cow’s hair. It contained 
four eggs. (Zhompson-Seton.) This species frequently nests in 
firs and spruces near Ottawa. Its nests are built of sticks and 
twigs, lined with moss, strips of bark and fine grass. Eggs, four 
to six; green, spotted with blackish-brown. (G. R. White.) Nest 
taken on June 2nd, 1895, a mile up the west fork of Old Wives’ 
Creek, contained four fresh eggs. The base of the nest was of 
coarse sticks and the inside was lined with the inner bark of ash- 
leaved maple, in which tree it was built. Other nests were taken in 
thickets of willow and other brush in many parts of the prairie. 
(Macoun.) March 2nd, 1902, a crow was seen to be carrying 
nesting material at Fredericton; even at that time migration had 
hardly begun, this being a bird that had remained in that vicinity 
all winter. I have found a full set of crow’s eggs April 21st. At 
one time a nest was found and both birds were sitting on the eggs. 
The cavity of the nest was much larger than ordinarily. Think- 
ing when seeing both birds fly from the nest it might be two 
females laying in one nest, I climbed and found that the nest 
contained five nearly incubated eggs. A nest was found here 
containing ten eggs. (W. H. Moore.) 
MUSEUM SPECIMENS. 
Twelve; one an albino, taken near Port Hope, Ont.; two taken 
at Ottawa by G. R. White ; two taken at Ottawa by F. A. Saun- 
ders ; three taken at Indian Head, Assa., two at Medicine Hat, 
Assa., one at Edmonton, Alta., and one at Kamloops, B.C, all by 
Mr. Spreadborough. 
Five sets of eggs; one set of five taken in Clarke’s bush, Glou- 
cester, near Ottawa, by W. A. D. Lees ; one set of six eggs from 
Sturgeon Island, Lake Winnipeg, June Ist, 1889 ; one set of three 
eggs at Medicine Lodge, south of Wood Mountain, Assa., June 
14th, 1895 ; one set of five eggs taken at Medicine Hat, Assa., 
May 14th, 1894; another set of four eggs taken at Edmonton, 
Alta., May 21st, 1897, all by Mr. Spreadborough. * 
