CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS. 565 
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Columbia. (Zord.) Seen only on Vancouver Island where two 
immature females were taken in September, 1899. (S¢reaéor.) 
The province at large; nowhere common; a few are found 
throughout the winter on the coast. (Fannim.) Common winter 
visitant at Chilliwack. Tolerably common at Lake Okanagan, 
B.C., in winter. (Bvooks.) 
The only specimen of this bird from southeastern Alaska was 
obtained at Fort Kenai, Cook’s Inlet, 19th May, 1869; over the 
entire portion of the territory from Behring Sea, east to the British 
boundary, and north to the Alaskan Mountains, it is a resident, 
rather common some places but nowhere abundant. (/Ve/son.) 
This species 1s found throughout the Yukon district ; it is a resid- 
ent, breeding wherever found in summer. (7wrner.) 
An immature bird in the brown plumage was shot at Hope, 
Cook’s Inlet, Alaska, September, 1900; several others were seen 
at Homer. (Osgood.) During the fall of 1899, this bird (¢veetus) 
was met with in the Kowak valley, Cook’s Inlet, Alaska. (Grinnell.) 
Two specimens were taken at Homer on September 15th, 1got. 
Several shrikes were seen on Kenai Mountains, Alaska, just above 
the edge of the timber line. They were found in pairs during 
the entire summer and no doubt breed there. (Chapman.) 
BREEDING NoTeEs.—I have only met with this shrike nesting at 
Toronto once. I took anest on May 28th, 1887; it contained five 
eggs and was situated quite conspicuously on the horizontal 
branch of a maple near the end and about 15 feet from the ground. 
The nest was bulky, the outside of sticks and strings with a few 
bright labels from meat tins worked in; the lining was of cow 
hair and felt; the nest was much larger than the white-rumped 
shrike builds. (/. AH. Fleming.) At Ottawa I have taken its nest 
ina low cedar tree. The nest was composed of sticks, strips of bark, 
grass and some soft vegetable matter, lined with grass. Eggs 4, 
greenish-gray, very thickly spotted with reddish-brown and 
purplish. (G. R. White.) I met with these birds breeding some 
years ago near the St. Lawrence River. This was in a large 
rough field where thorn bushes had grown up among some half- 
grown elms. On turning to my notes written at the time, I find 
the nest I met with was nearly finished on the 17th April when 
there was still a great deal of ice in the river and snow in places 
two feet deep. It was about six feet from the ground and built 
