702 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA. 
at Ottawa; one was shot by Mr. G. R. White, previous to 1881 
(Ottawa Naturalist, Vol. V.) The only specimens! know to have 
been taken near Toronto are those by my friend Mr. C. W. Nash 
and by Mr. Oliver Spencer. (/. Hughes-Samuel.) A not uncom- 
mon summer resident of Ontario, west and south from London. 
(W. E. Saunders.) 
MUSEUM SPECIMENS. 
One purchased with the Holman collection in 1885. 
One set of five eggs taken June Ist, 1891, two miles west of 
London, Ont., by Mr. W. E. Saunders. Nest of vegetable fibre 
and well covered with lichens, placed on a horizontal branch of a 
cherry tree two feet from the ground. 
Famity LV. TURDIDAK. TurRusHEs, SOLITAIRES, &C. 
CCLV. MYADESTES Swainson. 
754. Townsend’s Solitaire. 
Myadestes townsend (Avupd.) Cas. 1847. 
Observed at the Elbow River near Calgary, June 2ist, 1897, 
conimon in the Rocky Mountains south to Crow’s Nest Pass in 
July, 1897; a common species at Banff, breeding on mountains 
high up; seén everywhere inthe mountains around the Athabasca 
Pass, 1898; quite common at Revelstoke, B.C., from the 16th to the 
20th April, 1890; they sat around on stumps and caught flies or 
flew down at anything they might see; in June they were seen at 
Deer Park, Arrow Lake, at an elevation of 2,000 feet, and doubtless 
breeding; observed on nearly all the mountains on the Interna- 
tional Boundary in British Columbia; one seen on Deer Ridge, 
south slope of Mount Cheam, B.C., August 1oth, 1901; two seen 
near the summit of Mount Benson, Nanaimo, Vancouver Island, 
July toth, 1893, the birds had a nest in the side of the bank close 
to the rocky summit; only seen in. the Okanagan valley, B.C. in 
the early part of April, 1903; all disappeared about the 15th; heard 
singing everywhere in the woods at Elko, B.C. from the snow 
to the level of the railway, May, 1904. (Spreadborough.) 
Very rare, only shot once in the Columbia valley. (Lord.) A 
rare bird though I have taken it both east and west of the Coast 
Range, and have taken it at Ladners, in the lower Fraser valley, 
in January. (/annin.) Rare migrant in the valley at Chilliwack; 
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