690 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA. 
738. Mountain Chickadee. 
Parus gambeli Ripew. 1886. 
A common summer resident at Banff, Rocky Mountains in 1891; 
three shot on the mountains at Deer Park, Columbia River, B.C.; 
observed two on a mountain north of the Little Miette River, 
Athabasca Pass, Rocky Mountains, 1898; a common summer 
resident at Robson, B.C.; young full-grown and fledged by June 
26th, 1890; abundant at Spence’s Bridge, B.C.,in May, 1889; 
common on Sophie Mountain at 4,400 feet altitude, on the Inter- 
national Boundary, B.C., in 1902; observed about a dozen at 
Penticton; B-C.).in (April, 1903.4 ‘common at oa eou his carn 
May, 1904, a pair building a nest in a hole in a live larch 
about 14 feet from the ground, May gth, 1904. (Spreadborough.) 
British Columbia. (Zord.) Abundant about the mountains of the 
interior; breeds. (.S¢veator.) Wooded hills east of Coast Range 
and in Rocky Mountain district. (a@mnin.) I never secured this 
species but am confident I saw it on the Coast Range, B.C; 
rather common around Lake Okanagan, B.C., in winter; observed 
occasionally at Quesnel, in the Cariboo district of B.C., in 
winter. (#rooks.) Found in the interior mountains of British 
Columbia, but not in the Rockies. (Ahoads.) Rather comm n in 
spring at Golden, on the Columbia River; also in the Selkirk 
Mountains, B.C. (&. 2. G. White.) 
MUSEUM SPECIMENS. 
Seventeen; five taken at Banff, Rocky Mountains in May, 1891; 
one at Deer Park, and another at Robson, Columbia River, B.C., 
June, 1890; one at Griffin Lake, B.C., August 6th, 1889; three at 
Spence’s Bridge, B.C., June, 1889; one at Cascade, July 15th, 1902; 
two others at Penticton, B.C., April, 1903, and three at Elko, 
B.C., May, 1904; all by Mr. W. Spreadborough. 
739. Siberian Chicka “ee. 
Parus cinctus obtectus (CAB.) RipGw. 1885. 
On June Ist, 1864, a nest of this species containing seven eggs 
was found near Fort Anderson ina hole ina spruce, stump at a 
height of six feet from the ground. This was the first discovery 
of the nest of this bird on the American continent. It wascomposed 
of a moderate quantity of hare or rabbit fur, intermixed with a 
