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.588a. Spurred Towhee. 
Pipilo maculatus megalonyx (BAIRD) COUES. 1872. 
At Pass creek near Robson, Columbia valley, a strange bird 
was seen in a tree on June 20th, 1890; it had a very long tail and 
was new to us; the next day it was seen again and we decided it 
was a towhee; on the 26th, Prof. Macoun flushed a bird off its nest 
under a bush of Ceanothus velutinus and he immediately shot it. 
The male then came along and was shot also; they proved to be 
this form; within the nest were four half-grown young which we 
drowned ; common everywhere at Trail, B.C., in low bushes, 
young ready to fly, June 1st, 1902; common in low brush at Pentic- 
ton, south of Lake Okanagan, B.C., April, 1903; also at Sicamous 
and Enderby, B.C.; a pair seen at Elko, B.C., May 4th, 1904, and 
found to be common in low bushes on hillsides at Osoyoos lake, 
B.C., June, 1905. (Spreadborough.) An adult male and female 
taken at Ashcroft. (Streator.) East of Coast range; breeds at 
Ashcroft. (Fannin.) Abundantly haunting the woodlands of all 
points visited in British Columbia up to 4000 feet. (Rhoads.) 
588b. Oregon Towhee. 
Pipilo maculatus oregonus (BELL) COUES. 1872. 
Abundant on the coast at Hastings on Burrard inlet and at 
Port Heney and Agassiz on the Fraser river, in 1899; very abund- 
ant at Chilliwack, Douglas and Huntingdon near the International 
Boundary; abundant on Vancouver island and on the islands in 
the Gulf of Georgia. (Spreadborough.) Abundant on the coast of 
British Columbia; breeds. (Streator.) An abundant resident west 
of the Coast range; winters on the coast. (Fannin.) Common 
at Chilliwack; permanent resident. (Brooks.) Replacing mega- 
lonyx west of the Coast range ; its exact counterpart in habits 
and habitat. (Rhoads.) Rather common around Vancouver, B.C. 
and Stanley park in July, 1895. (EF. F. G. White.) 
CCXXXII. CARDINALIS Bonaparte. 1837. 
593. Cardinal. Red-bird. 
Cardinalis cardinalis (LINN.) LICHT. 1854. 
Two were seen, a male and a female at Scotch Lake, York county, 
N.B., August 20th, 1900. (W.H. Moore.) The cardinal can be only 
