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Bent.) Some of the references under C. brachyrhynchus probably 
should go here. 
Rather rare along the Columbia flats at Revelstoke, B.C.; heard 
at Pass creek, Columbia river, B.C.; common at Agassiz and Kam- 
loops, B.C., in 1889; common at Osoyoos lake and Similkameen 
river in 1905; saw three on the shore of a small lake at Elko, B.C. in 
1904; abundant and breeding at Penticton, April, 1903. (Spread- 
borough.) Found breeding at Ashcroft, B.C. (Streator.) Common 
summer resident, east of coast range. (Fannin.) 
BREEDING NotTes.—Found a nest May 5th, 1905, at Midway, 
B.C., in a poplar tree about 8 feet from the ground. It was made of 
sticks and lined with grass and fine bark from poplar trees. Saw 
several nests in clumps of willow along Meyers creek on the same 
day. (Spreadborough.) 
489. Northwest Crow. 
Corvus caurinus Baird. 1858. 
Chiefly west of Coast range; very abundant on the coast; resident. 
(Fannin.) Common resident at Chilliwack, B.C. (Brooks.) Very 
abundant from Chilliwack to Huntingdon, B.C., in 1901; a most 
abundant species on Vancouver island, living the whole year along 
the coasts of the island and breeding in small spruce and Douglas fir 
trees; in May, 1887, a colony bred in small spruce on Comox spit. 
There may be two forms of this western species, but I have never 
been able to satisfactorily separate them. (Spreadborough.) On the 
west coast crows are abundant. In the interior of British Columbia 
they are found in diminished numbers., Their habits and voices 
are essentially the same. (Rhoads.) I have two sets of four eggs 
each that were taken on Vancouver island, May 12th, 1889, by Mr. 
Fannin. (W. Raine.) Not common on Queen Charlotte islands. 
A flock of about thirty was seen several times near the head of 
Cumshewa inlet. (Osgood.) Bischoff obtained numerous speci- 
mens of this -little-known bird at Sitka. Dr. Bean also found it 
abundant at Sitka. (Nelson.) Common on all the small islands in 
the bay at Sitka, Alaska, especially on St. Lazaria island, where the 
young and eggs of the sea birds constituted its staple articles of - 
food. (Grinnell.) Abundant at Seldovia, Alaska. (Anderson.) 
