434 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA. 
above the timber line on all the mountains ascended around 
the sources of the Athabasca River in 1898. (Spread- 
borough.) 1 have taken the typical species as far west as Chilli- 
wack, B.C.; a large flock seen once or twice on mountains to the 
west of Lake Okanagan ; the typical species breeds on the high 
mountains near Barkerville, Cariboo distfict, B-C. (Brooks.) A 
flock of three birds was seen near Field, B.C., Rocky Mountains. 
(Rhoads.) 
BreEEpDING Notes.—As the nest and eggs of this bird have never 
been recorded, I am pleased to describe them for the first time. 
I have a nest and four eggs with the parent bird that were taken 
at Banff, Rocky Mountains, Alta., on June gth, 1892, by Mr. Wm. 
Fear. The nest is made of roots and fine bark lined with fine 
grass and was built in a crevice of a rock, and the eggs are pure 
white, averaging ‘90x65. (W. Raine.) 
MUSEUM SPECIMENS. 
Seven; two taken August 6th, 1891, on Mount Aylmer, Devil’s 
Lake, Banff, Rocky Mountains and five on Moose Mountain, 
foothills of Rocky Mountains, Alta., in July, 1887, by Mr. Spread- 
borough. 
524u. Hepburn’s Leucosticte. 
Leucosticte tephrocotis littoras (BAIRD) COUES. 1872. 
The types of this form came from Sitka, and since then speci- 
mens have been obtained from Sitka, Kadiak, British Columbia, 
Wyoming and Rocky Mountain region as far south as Colorado. 
(Nelson.) Abundant summer resident on both sides of the Coast 
Range. (Zord.) We found this bird only at the summit of the 
White Pass, head of Lynn Canal. (Szshop.) From the coast to 
the Rocky Mountains ; at Ashcroft, Clinton and Burrard Inlet. 
Taken at Port Simpson by Mr. W. B. Anderson. (#annin.) Rare 
winter visitant at Chilliwack ; breeds above the timber line in the 
Coast Range; some of the specimens seen at Lake Okanagan 
may have been this species; typical specimens taken in the winter 
in the Cariboo district, B.C. (Bvooks.) Found tolerably common 
on the summit of Mount Arrowsmith, Vancouver Island, July 1gth, 
1887. (Macoun.) One specimen seen on top of a mountain at 
the foot of Chilliwack Lake, B.C., July 20th, 1901. (Spreadborough.) 
