558 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA. 
the spring of 1826 near the sources of the Athabasca River by Mr. 
Drummond, and by myself the same season at Great Bear Lake, in 
Lat. 65°; it appears in great flocks at Great Bear Lake about the 
24th May, when it feeds on the berries of the alpine arbutus and 
marsh vaccinium ; it stays only a few days; none of the Indians 
knew where it nests, but I have reason to believe that it is in the 
mountain limestone districts in Lat. 67° or 68°. (Richardson.) I 
have been informed by Mr. John Hope, a resident at Fort Frank- 
lin on Great Bear Lake that these birds build in numbers in the 
vicinity; but so high up on the trees that the eggs are very diffi- 
cult to obtain ; aspecimen was shot at Fort Liard in February 
which leads me to believe that it is a winter resident. (/oss.) 
An egg and nest of this bird were found in a pine tree on the 
Anderson River in 1861 in about Lat. 68°. Several skins were 
obtained at Fort Anderson in 1862, but the most careful search 
failed to produce any nests. (Mac/arlane.) Shot only east of the 
Coast Range. (Lord.) A resident chiefly east of Coast Range 
and Rocky Mountain district ; a rare winter visitor on Vancouver 
Island. (annin.) Abundant in some winters in Chilliwack and 
entirely absent in others ; abundant at Lake Okanagan, B.C. in 
the winter of 1897-98, but less so the next winter; breeds. (Bvooks.) 
Saw numbers of large flocks up the Columbia from Golden, B.C., 
December, 17th, 1899 ; and numbers up the Nicola, February 23rd, 
1898. (k. F. G. White.) 
On August 20th, 1899, the day we arrived at our winter camp 
on the Kowak, Cook’s Inlet, Alaska, I saw a flock of 50 wax- 
wings in a bunch of spruce trees, but none afterwards. ( Grinnell.) 
There is no record of this bird’s occurrence anywhere along the 
shores of Behring Sea on the arctic ; in the interior, however, it 
is rather common, and specimens were brought to me from Nulato 
and Fort Reliance on the Yukon; the only examples we have 
(from Alaska) of the waxwing’s nest and eggs were taken by 
Kennicott at Fort Reliance, Yukon, on 4th July, 1861. (JVelson.) 
_ This bird is only an occasional visitor to the coast ; specimens 
were obtained from Nulato and Fort Yukon. (Zurner.) We saw 
several on Six-mile River, July Ist; two at Lake Marsh, July 7th ; 
one on Fifty-mile River, July roth; two pairs at Miles Cajion, July 
11th; and later they were seenin pairs and families at many points 
on the Yukon to near Circle City ; the last were seen August 12th; 
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