CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS. 689 
identity was not determined. Thirty miles below Holy Cross 
Mission I took two, August 25th, and at the Aphoon mouth I 
saw a small flock August 28th. Young able to fly were taken July 
7th, One taken, August 25th, had completed the moult into first 
winter plumage, while an adult taken the same day was in fresh 
plumage. (Bzshop.) On the 26th October, 1898, I was hunting in 
the willow bottoms along the Hunt River north of our winter 
quarters on Kotzebue Sound, Alaska, when I met with this 
species for the first time. (Grennell.) 
MUSEUM SPECIMENS. 
Fifteen ; one taken at Peace River Landing, June 17, 1903; one 
at Banff, Rocky Mountains, May Ig, 1891, two at Edmonton,Alta., 
April, 1897, five at Revelstoke,B.C., April, 1890, one at Deer Park, 
Columbia River, B.C., June 7, 1890, two at Cascade, B.C June 14, 
1902, two at Penticton, B.C., April, 1903, and one at Kamloops, 
B.C., June 18, 1889, all by Mr. W. Spreadborough. 
735). Oregon Chickadee. 
Parus atricapillus occidentalis (BAIRD) CoUuES. 1872. 
Not uncommon in the woods at Agassiz, and Hastings, B.C., in 
April and May, 1889; common at Chilliwack, B.C., also along the 
river to the head of Chilliwack Lake, in July, 1901. (Spreaa- 
borough.) British Columbia. (Zovd.) Common in the coast region. 
(Streator.) A common resident west of Coast Range. (Fannzn.) 
Abundant resident at Chilliwack. (Svooks.) Abundant in the 
coast region of British Columbia. (Ahoads.) Hartlaub records 
two specimens of this form taken at Chilcat; he added also ‘on 
February 17th, seen on the low bushes and deciduous trees near 
the shore, summer and winter always in low thickets near coast.” 
(Nelson.) This species ranges through the Yukon district; during 
a warm period of winter these birds were occasionally seen at 
St. Michael. They retire to the interior in May and are not seen 
on the coast in the summer months. (Zzsner.) 
MUSEUM SPECIMENS. 
Nine; four taken at Agassiz, B.C., May, 1889,three at Chilliwack, 
B.C., May, 1901, two at Huntington, B.C., October 4th, 1go1, all 
by Mr. W. Spreadborough. 
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