CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS. 559 
the birds that we collected had been feeding on the purple berries 
of some unidentified plant. (Lzshop.) 
The plant referred to above was likely the bog blueberry (Vac- 
cinium uliginosum) which was abundant on mossy slopes and 
sphagnum flats between Dawson and Selkirk. Berries ripe at 
Dawson, Lat. 64°15’, July toth, 1902. (Macoun.) 
BREEDING Notes.—Breeding from 158-Mile House northward; 
I arrived at Quesnel too late for eggs, but kept a sharp lookout 
for waxwings the following spring at 158-Mile House; J first 
noticed them there on 11th June, when IT came across a small 
flock and shot one which proved on dissection to be a female 
about to lay. On returning to the same spot I found the wax- 
wings, consisting of a colony of five pairs of birds, still there, and 
soon discovered a nest in a Murray pine, near the end of a limb 
and about 25 feet up; this then (12th June) contained two eggs ; 
on the 15th I took this set, which then consisted of four eggs ; 
the nest was loose and bulky, composed of Usnea moss, dry grass 
and weed stems, and lined with fine material, with a few green 
aspen leaves in the lining, no doubt to render the egg; less con- 
spicuous; on the 26th June I carefully looked over all the trees in 
the neighbourhood with my binocular, and found three more 
nests, all in tall Douglas fir trees; two of these I was able to climb 
to; each contained four eggs within a few days of hatching ; the 
nests were similar to the first but without the green aspen leaves, 
probably due to the fact that the nests were better concealed 
from above; I was unable to reach the fourth nest, nor could I 
find that of the remaining pair of birds. (Srooks.) Early in June, 
1893, I saw and heard this bird chattering in the woods on the 
slopes of Squaw Mountain at Banff in the Rockies; my guide 
‘informed me he had several times seen its nest late in July; I 
offered him a good price fora set of eggs and sure enough he 
succeeded in finding a nest and four eggs on July 30th, 1893; this 
nest is composed of fine twigs, roots and grass and was built 20 
feet up in a spruce tree; on July 13th, 1894, he found a nest and 
five eggs, also built in a spruce tree top, while on July 22nd, 1897, 
he found another nest and four eggs, again built in the top of a 
low spruce tree, and secured one of the birds. (W. Raine.) 
MUSEUM SPECIMENS. 
Ten specimens; three taken at Canmore, Rocky Mountains ‘in 
June, 1885, by Prof. Macoun; four taken at Banff, Rocky Moun- 
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