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i 10. Bubo virginianus (Gm.). Great Horned Owl. 

 Kll. Scops asio (L.). Screech or Mottled Owl. 

 -^12. Nyctale acadica (Gm.). Sawwhet Owl. 

 -rl3. Glaucidium gnoma, Wagler. Pigmy Owl. 



14. Nyctea nivea (Daud.). Snowy Owl. 



15. Picus HARRisi, Aud. Harris's Woodpecker. 



16. Picus gairdneri^ Aud. Gairdner's Woodpecker. 



17. Sphyropicus ruber (Gm.). Red-breasted Woodpecker. 

 —-18. Sphyropicus vARius (L.). Yellow-bellied Woodpecker. 

 -19. CoLAPTES MEXiCANUs, Swains. Red-shafted Flicker. 

 -"20. Hylatomus piLEATUs (L.). Logcock. 



21. Selasphorus rufus (Gm.). 



The Red-backed Humming-bird is very common as far north 

 as Sitka in "Russian America" (Alaska), where it is said 

 to be abundant. It appears in the vicinity of Victoria, Van- 

 couver Island, from the end of March to the beginning of May, 

 according to the state of the season. It builds its nest on the 

 tips of low bushes, or the under branches of trees, and can be 

 seen all through the summer flitting about from flower to flower 

 (particularly the bright scarlet blossoms of Ribes sagineum, &c.), 

 not in search of honey, but of the insects which harbour there. 

 The Indian boys at Fort Rupert used to capture them with a 

 sort of bird-lime made of the slime of a species of Limax found 

 there. In popular opinion there are two species in the island, 

 the bright hues of the male being so difi'erent from the homelier 

 plumage of the female. Though several species frequent the 

 region on the other side of the Cascade Mountains, yet, as far 

 as I am aware, the species in question is the only one to the 

 west of that range. 



22. Chordiles FOPETUE (VieilL). Night-Hawk ; Bull-Bat; 

 Goatsucker; Pisk; Mosquito-Hawk. 



23. Ceryle alcyon (L.). Belted Kingfisher. 



_i t24. Tyran>:us vekticalis, Say. Arkansas Flycatcher. 



