532 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA. 
Ottawa, but more frequently in Montreal in June, also at Lake 
Nominingue, 100 miles north of Ottawa, in July. Nest ina fork 
in a bush two or three feet from the ground, made of dried leaves 
and lined with fine grass or hairs. Eggs in the set three or four 
of a pale blue colour. (Garneai..) 
MUSEUM SPECIMENS. 
Three; taken at Ottawa in May, 1888, by Prof. Macoun. 
Two sets of four eggs each, both taken by Mr. W. Raine, one 
at Toronto, June Ist, 1889, and one at Stratford, Ont., May 
29th, 1890. 
599. Lazuli Bunting. 
Cyanospiza amend (SAY) BarrD. 1858. 
This species was found in the Bow valley from the foothills at 
Morley upto Banff in the Rocky Mountains, but although often 
seen was not common in the summer of 1891; common at Trail on 
the Columbia and at Cascade in low bushes on the hillsides in 
June and July, 1902; tound at Kamloops and Spence’s Bridge, B. 
C. in abundance in June, 1889; two pairs were seen at Agassiz on 
May 13th, the same year, one specimen seen at Chilliwack, B.C., 
May 23rd, 1901; shot a female at Comox, Vancouver Island, tae 
23rd, 1893, the onty one seen; one seen at lake near Victoria, 
Vancouver Island, May 15th, 1887. (Spreadborough.) This beauti- 
ful bird is abundant between the Coast Range and the Rockies, 
but does not extend further north than Bonaparte River which ts 
north of Ashcroft in British Columbia. (2hoads.) 
MUSEUM SPECIMENS. 
Nine; four taken at Trail, B.C., May and June, 1902, three at 
Spence’s Bridge, B.C., May, 1889, one at Kamloops, B.C., June 
23rd, 1889, and one at Comox, Vancouver Island, June 23rd, 1893, 
all by Mr. Spreadborough. 
CCXII. SPIZA Bonaparte. 1824. 
604. Dickcissel. 
Spiza americana (GMEL.) Ripew. 1880. 
Since the irruption of this species into eastern and cee 
Ontario in 1895, recorded in the Ottawa Naturalist, of that year 
