504 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA. 
(Osgood.) Tolerably common at Skagway and more so at Haines 
Mission. At Skagway I took a female and four fresh eggs, May 
31st. The nest of dried grass, lined with short, white hairs, was 
sunk in the ground and concealed by dead weeds under a birch 
only about 30 feet above the water of Lynn Canal. (Bzshop.) 
Mr. Rhoads, after discussing the differences between this form 
and the next, says :—“I think it safe to say that birds indistin- 
guishable from oregonus breed on the better watered mountains 
of the interior of British Columbia. The only approach to 
shufeldti is found in birds from the most arid lowlands and 
most eastern Rockies, but their differences are too slight and 
fortuitous to warrant a distinction.” 
MUSEUM SPECIMENS. 
Eight; two taken at Burrard Inlet, B.C., in April, 1889; four at 
Huntington, B.C., in September, 1901; two at Victoria, Vancouver 
Island, in May, 1893; all by Mr. Spreadborough. 
One set of five eggs taken near Victoria, V.I., May, 1890, by 
Rev. G. Taylor. 
5676. Shufeldt’s Junco. 
Junco oreganus shufeldtt (COALE) RipGw. 1901. 
In company with two hyemalis at Edmonton, Alta.,in May, 1897, 
and in the Rocky Mountains south of Yellowhead Pass, in July, 
1898 ; apparently accidental in the Rocky Mountains, one taken 
at Canmore near Banff in May, 1891; very common and breeding 
in the Columbia River valley from Revelstoke to the Interna- 
tional Boundary where a large series of birds was taken in 1890 
and 1902. Common from the Columbia to Vancouver Island. 
West of the Coast Range it becomes mixed with the Oregon junco 
and evidently breeds ; very abundant at Penticton, south of 
Okanagan, B.C., in April, 1903. (Spreadborough.) The junco 
breeding in the plateau region between the Coast Range and the 
Rockies and migrating south in winter, is evidently separable 
from the coast form. Specimens referred here were collected at 
Ashcroft in June and July, 1889; taken also by Mr. Macfarlane at 
Stewart’s Lake with its nests and five eggs. (S¢reator.) Abundant 
at Lake Okanagan, B.C., in winter. (Brooks.) A female was taken 
at Glacier in the White Pass, June 7th 1899 and another at White 
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