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birds and the nest torn down on July 12th. Another nest was on 
a dead limb of a small hemlock. The nest, like the wood-pewee’s, 
is built on the upper side of the limb. (Rev. C. J. Young.) A nest 
taken at Ottawa was built on ahorizontal branch of a tree. It was 
built of gray lichen lined with soft plant down. Eggs two, pure 
white, blushed with pink. (G. R. White.) 
Of three hummingbird’s nests I have found, one taken near 
Ottawa on July 7th, 1890, was seen under exceptionally favourable 
circumstances. My brother and I spent quite a long time watching 
the tiny builder. The nest had not yet begun to show cupping, 
and she was very busy; her absences were short and her visits 
frequent; twenty or thirty seconds was often sufficient for her to 
get a load, and she took only from ten to thirty seconds, usually 
“twenty, to finish working it in. The universal testimony seems to 
be that, while the female is useful, the male is merely ornamental, 
and takes no part whatever in the work; that was certainly the 
fact in this instance. (W. E. Saunders in Ottawa Naturalist, Vol. 
XVI, p. tor.) I have a hummingbird’s nest made of plant down 
entirely ornamented with lichens. A crown of these lichens one- 
third of an inch wide covers the brim. The cavity is all white and 
its diameter is 0.90 of an inch with a depth of 0.50 of aninch. Out- 
side it measures 1.25 inches in diameter and 1.50 inches in height. 
I found it near Ottawa on the 29th July, 1906, built on the middle 
of a horizontal branch of a beech tree at a height of fifteen feet. 
Small pieces of shells were in the nest. (A. L. Garneau.) 
429. Black-chinned Hummingbird. 
Trochilus alexandri Bourc. & Muts. 
Confined to the mainland; on both slopes of the Coast range. 
(Fannin.) Summer resident at Chilliwack; not common. (Brooks.) 
This species was found in some abundance at Agassiz, B.C., in May, 
1889, and a few at Spence bridge, B.C., on the mountain back from 
the bridge. Saw several while at the Similkameen river, B.C., in 
June, 1905. (Spreadborough.) 
