CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS. 7O1 
cylinder; the sitting bird must have been entirely concealed ; it 
contained five eggs, a sixth imperfect one was sticking in the 
foundation of the nest; it had evidently been pushed through the 
lining and a fresh floor built over it; the owners were raising a 
great outcry over the intrusion of a wandering brood of ‘ whiskey 
jacks”; two grouse feathers were carefully put over the entrance 
to the nest, which made me think that it had been rifled by the 
jays and the lining pulled out. (Bvooks.) 
MUSEUM SPECIMENS. 
Twenty-four; two taken at Banff, Rocky Mountains in April, 
1891, two at Edmonton, Alta., May, 1897, six et Revelstoke, B.C., 
April, 1890, two at Penticton, B.C., April, 1903, one at Medicine 
Hat, Assa., May, 11th, 1894, four at Huntington. B.C., October, 
I901, one at Burrard Inlet, B.C., April 7th, 1889, and one at 
Fernie, B.C., April 21st, 1904, all by Mr. W. Spreadborough; one 
-at London, Ont., May 2nd, 1885, by Mr. W. E. Saunders; four 
at Ottawa, Ont., in May, 18090, by Dr. F. A. Saunders. 
849a. Sitkan Kinglet. 
Regulus calendula grinnellt PALMER. 1897. 
This kinglet was not very common,and I only observed it along 
Indian River, at Sitka, Alaska, in tall firs; I saw them’in pairs on 
two occasions, but I secured no young. This kinglet doubtless 
breeds, though not in abundance; three adult males were secured. 
({Grinnell.) At Skagway, Alaska, I heard a Sitkan kinglet singing 
May 31st, and at Haines took a male and heard another singing 
June 1st. At Glacier I took a male June 6th, and during our stay 
heard two or three others singing. While the Log Cabin bird is 
normal calendula, the Haines and Glacier birds have the more 
olive back and darker sides of crown of grinnellt. (Bushop.) 
CCLIV. POLIOPTILA Sciater 1851. 
751. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher. 
Potioptila cerulea (LINN.) ScB. 1855. 
An accidental visitant at Montreal. Mr. Kuetzing saw one 
example of this species in Mr. Craig’s collection, shot on?‘ the 
island of Montreal a number of years ago, but Mr. Craig says he 
<loes not remember having it in his possession. (Wendle.) Casual 
