CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS. 649 
River Landing, in Lat. 56° 15’, in June, 1903; first seen at Edmon- 
ton, Alta., May 29th, 1897, common by June Ist, soon commenced 
nesting along the river and smaller streams; common in willow 
thickets from Edmonton to Athabasca Pass in June, 1898; one ob- 
served at Crow’s Nest Lake, Rocky Mountains, July 28th,1897, and 
breeding at Banff, Rocky Mountains, in July, 1891; a few seen at 
Revelstoke, B.C., in May, 1890; in June they were found nesting 
in low thickets on small poplar trees-at Deer Park and Pass 
Creek, near Robson on the Columbia River; one observed at 
Rossland, B.C., in 1902. (Spreadborough.) One pair seen at Lac 
La Biche River, 30 miles below Athabasca Landing, Alta. In 
June and July, 1889, it was abundant at Kamloops and along the 
North Thompson River, B.C.; rather rare at Enderby near Sica- 
mous, B.C. (/. M. Macoun.) 
This beautiful bird is found insummer as far north as Lat. 58°. 
It frequents moist shady places in the Northwest Territories, flitting 
about among the moss-grown stems of the tall willows that skirt 
every marsh in these quarters. (Réchardson.) North to Fort 
Good Hope on the Mackenzie River; common. (oss.) British 
Columbia. (Lord.) Common summer resident in the interior; 
breeds. (Streator.) Found throughout the province, but nowhere 
common. (Fannin.) Well represented all over the interior of 
British Columbia. (Rhoads.) Regularly east of, and accidentally 
west of, the Coast Range in British Columbia. Breeding through- 
out the Cariboo district of British Columbia. (Bvooks.) 
BREEDING Notres.—In June and July nests with eggs are found 
around Ottawa and Lake Nominingue, 100 miles north of it, in 
bushes and trees from four to twenty feet high; they are made 
of flexible bark, ornamented on the outside with the white bark 
of the birch, and are often lined with a few feathers or hairs. 
Nests 2°50 x 2°50 and 2x 1°50. (Garnedu.) Builds an elegant 
nest in upright crotch from 5 to 25 feet from the ground; nest 
is composed of plant down and vegetable fibre and bark strips, 
lined with fine grass, rootlets and a little hair ; eggs 4, white, 
thickly sprinkled over and spotted with brown, lilac and purplish. 
(G. R. White.) They nest in June, building in upright crotches in 
bushes 10-20 feet up; white birches seem to be the favorite tree 
for their nests, probably on account of the position of the limbs; 
the nest is firmly constructed of strips of bark, grasses and plant 
down, lined with hair; eggs 30r 4. (W.H. Moore.) This is one 
