684 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA. 
Coast Range. Common around Lake Okanagan, B.C., in winter, 
associating with chickadees. Rather common in winter in the 
Cariboo district of B.C. (Bvooks.) 
Two specimens were taken in Cumshewa Inlet, Queen Charlotte 
Islands, B.C., June 18th and June 22nd respectively. No others 
‘were seen during our stay. (Osgood.) I took a male at Skagway, 
Alaska, May 31st, and another at Log Cabin, June 2oth, and heard 
‘one on an island at the junction of the Lewis and Pelly rivers, 
near Fort Selkirk, Yukon district, July 26th. This species has not 
heretofore been noted in the Yukon valley. (zshop.) 
BREEDING Notes.—The eggs of this species are laid by May 
roth, at Scotch Lake, York Co., N.B.,in a hole excavated in a dead 
tree, preferably a spruce or fir. The nest is generally about four 
inches below the entrance, and is composed of bark, fibre, fur and 
a few feathers. The cavity is about three inches in diameter and 
is sometimes made with great labour. On one occasion a pair 
were found digging acavity, March 26th, and at that date could 
get half the size of the bird into the hole. Knots were struck 
about two inches down and late in April they had to give up their 
site and find a new place. Before leaving they had collected 
quite a coating of balsam about the entrance, perhaps for the 
purpose of keeping out large ants or mice. Both male and female 
work at nest making. The number of eggs is six, each of which 
is set in a light depression in the nest lining. (W.H. Moore.) In 
June, 1893, I found this bird nesting at Rush Lake, Assa. There 
are no trees at Rush Lake, so the bird laid its eggs in a hole in a 
beam on the stable-roof. (W. Raine.) Last summer I found a 
nest of the red-breasted nuthatch. It was dug in a rotten stump 
five feet from the ground, and contained young birds almost able 
to fly. Around the entrance to the nest was a ring of pine or 
balsam gum, and as I saw the young birds picking at it I inferred 
it was an insect trap. I also found three nests of the chickadee, 
and each was lined with the hair of the Lepus americana. (G. E. 
Atkinson in Trans. Can. Inst., Vol. I11., 3rd Series.) 
MUSEUM SPECIMENS. 
Twenty-one; one taken at Ottawa by the writer on May 12, 
1888, another by Mr. G. R. White, Dec. 16, 1888, and two others 
by Dr. F. A. Saunders in Nov. 1890; one taken at London, Ont., 
May Io, 1881, by Mr. W. E. Saunders ; one taken at Medicine Hat, 
