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CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS. 685 
Assa., May, 21, 1894, one at Edmonton, Alta., April 29, 1897, three 
at Banff, Rocky Mountains in June, 1891, one at Revelstoke, B.C., 
April 25, 1890, two at Deer Park, Columbia River, B.C., June,18go, 
one at Penticton, B.C., April, 8, 1903, one at Spence’s Bridge, B.C., 
June 3, 1889, one at Chilliwack, B.C., June 8, 1901, and two at 
Victoria, Vancouver Island, in May, 1893, all,by Mr. W. Spread- 
borough. 
One set of five eggs taken near Wolfville, N.S., by Mr. Harold 
Tufts, May 23, 1901; nest ina hole in a dead birch stump about 
ten feet from the ground, composed of fine rootlets and grass. 
730. Pygmy Nuthatch, 
Sitta pygm@a Vic. 1839. 
British Columbia. (Zord.) Found only at Ducks where it was 
as common as the others. (S¢veator.) I have only found this bird 
east of the Coast Range. (/anmin.) Rather common at Lake 
Okanagan, B.C. in winter. Confined to the regions of Pinus 
ponderosa in B.C.,in summer. (Bvooks.) Only found and that 
sparingly at Vernon near Lake Okanagan, B.C. (Rhoads.) Com- 
mon on the hill-sides in the scattered timberat Penticton, Lake 
Okanagan, B.C. It builds its nest in holes in trees anywhere from 
6 to 40 feet from the ground; they have a remarkable way of 
caulking up the holes and seams in the tree around their nest 
with hair. They sometimes work Io or 12 days making the nest; 
on April 15th, 1903, found a pair building their nest; chopped the 
same out May Ist and found six eggs; the bird covered them with 
feathers on leaving the nest so I suppose she had not finished 
laying. (Spreadborougn.) 
MUSEUM SPECIMENS. 
Seven specimens taken at Penticton, B.C., in April, 1903, by Mr. 
W. Spreadborough. 
CCL. PARUS Linneaus. 1758. 
735. Chickadee. 
Parus atricapillus LINN. 1766. 
Locally common in timbered parts of northeastern Labrador. 
{ Bigelow.) Jam informed by credible persons long resident in 
