712 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA. 
Not uncommonat Prince Albert, Sask.; breeding in the vicinity. 
(Coubeaux.) One specimen secured at Grand Rapids of the Sas- 
katchewan. (Nutting.) This thrush arrives on the banks of the 
Saskatchewan in May and during the summer haunts the alder 
thickets and dense willow groves that skirt the marshes. (Kich- 
avdson.) North to Lapierre’s House, on the Mackenzie River; 
abundant. (Ross.) A common breeding bird from Clinton, B.C., 
to Quesnel. (Svooks.) Southern mainland, east of Coast Range, 
B.C. (annin.) A female and young male in nesting plumage 
were shot at Nelson, B.C., where they were fairly abundant: 
(Rhoads.) Onthe coast of Behring Sea, where the grey-cheeked 
thrush is abundant, this species is very rare or does not eccur at 
all. In the interior, however, it appears to increase in numbers as 
the distance from the sea-coast increases. (Velson.) A single 
specimen was obtained from Fort Yukon, Alaska; it is appar- 
ently not common in any district of Alaska. (Zurner.) 
BsEEDING Notres.—At Edmonton, Alta., on May 3Ist, 1897, 1 
found what I took to be an olive-back’s nest. It was built upon 
the top of a willow stump that had been chopped off about six- 
teen inches from the ground. I saw the bird leave the nest and 
tried to get a shot, but she was too wary. I shot a male near the 
nest at the time. The nest was composed of weeds lined with 
dry grass, eggs four, blue and quite fresh. June 11th found an- 
other nest and four eggs in the fork of a willow about four feet 
from the ground; nest composed of weeds and dirt, lined with dry 
grass; eggs light-blue with brownish spots. (Spreadborough.) At 
Lake Nominingue, about 100 miles north of Ottawa, this thrush 
takes the place of Wilson’s thrush. On July Ist, Igo1, a nest with 
two young birds was found in a maple tree, six feet from the 
ground. It was made of grass and green moss and lined with 
dry leaves and rootlets ; nest 4 x 3 and 2°60 x 2. (Garneau.) A 
nest found June 16th, 1902, at Scotch Lake, York Co., N.B., had 
four fresh eggs. Nest composed of twigs and moss, lined with 
skeleton leaves, 30 feet up in a tall spruce, and eight feet out on 
the limb. (W. 7. Moore.) 
MUSEUM SPECIMENS. 
Eight ; one at Medicine Hat, Assa., May, 17th, 1894, one at 
Peace River Landing, June 18th, 1903, three at Edmonton, Alta., 
May, 1897, and three at Elko, in May, 1904, all by Mr. W. Spread- 
borough. 
