CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS. 445 
the foothills of the Rocky mountains in Alberta. (W. Ravine.) 
These birds arrive on the Saskatchewan about the beginning of 
May and soon after pair and commence to breed. They build their 
nests like rooks, several in the same tree and occasionally in the 
loose sticks of an osprey’s nest. (Rzchardson.) North to Fort 
. Simpson on the Mackenzie river; rare. (Ross.) 
BREEDING Notes.—In the neighbourhood of Ottawa, Ont., this 
species nests in a tree or bush. Its nest is built of mud; lined with 
grass and rootlets, horse hair and leaves. Eggs five to six, bluish 
or greenish with purple veining and clouding with dark brown and 
blackish. (G. R. White.) This species nests in barns on islands 
and intervales along the St. John river, N.B.; sometimes there 
being three and four nests in one barn. They are usually built on 
beams or in the angle of a post and brace of the framework. The 
eggs number from three to fivé and are hatched by May 24th. (W. 
H. Moore.) Numbers were building in holes of dead ash-leaved maple 
at Old Wives creek, Sask., in May, 1895. One nest was taken on 
May 30th in a clump of tall choke-cherries. It was about six feet 
from the ground and was about eight inches across and built of the 
stems of various weeds. The inside was plastered with earth and 
afterwards lined with grass stems and a little horse hair. It was 
shaped like the nest of Brewer’s blackbird, but smaller. (Macoun.) 
Most of the nests are built in cedar and other coniferous trees; some 
are fixed to the reeds in the marshes, while others are placed in 
barns with nests of robins, of phcebes and of barn swallows. They 
are composed of coarse grass and mud, and lined with finer grass. 
Their dimensions are 6 inches in diameter by 4 or 5 inches in height, 
and their cavity has 4 inches in diameter by 3 in depth. Hae birds 
lay five eggs at the beginning of May. ee L. Garneau.) 
Famity XL. FRINGILLID/. Enea SPARROWS, &C. 
CCVII. HESPERIPHONA Bonaparte. 1850. 
514. Evening Grosbeak. 
Hesperiphona vespertina (W. COOPER) BONAPARTE. 1850. 
On November 24th, 1903, four specimens of the evening grosbeak 
were brought to me, three males and a female, that had been killed 
in the woods near Quebec. Later, about the end of January, 1904, 
