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filled the valley.] I believe that a colony, or more than one, of 
these birds exists on the eastern slope of the Rocky mountains, 
and doubtless are permanent residents; saw a large flock on Lake 
mountain, east of the Columbia river, on the International Boun- 
dary, B.C., November 3rd, 1902; saw three near the summit of the 
Rocky mountains in the Athabaska pass, July 11th, 1898; also a 
flock of about fifty on the Brazeau river, September 24th, said to stay 
in the mountains all winter. (Spreadborough.) This elegant bird 
has only lately been detected in America, having been discovered in 
the spring of 1826 near the sources of the Athabaska river by Mr. 
Drummond, and by myself the same season at Great Bear lake, in 
lat. 65°; it appears in great flocks at Great Bear lake about the 
24th May, when it feeds on the berries of the alpine arbutus and 
marsh vaccinium; it stays only a few days; none of the Indians 
knew where it nests, but I have reason to believe that it is in the 
mountain limestone districts in lat. 67° or 68°. (Richardson.) I 
have been informed by Mr. John Hope, a resident at Fort Frank- 
lin on Great Bear lake that these birds build in numbers in the 
vicinity; but so high up on the trees that the eggs are very difli- 
cult to obtain; a specimen was shot at Fort Liard in February 
which leads me to believe that it is a winter resident. (Ross.) 
An egg and nest of this bird were found in a pine tree on the Ander- 
son river in 1861 in about lat. 68°. Several skins were obtained 
at Fort Anderson in 1862, but the most careful search failed to 
produce any nests. (Macfarlane.) Shot only east of the Coast 
range. (Lord.) A resident chiefly east of Coast range and Rocky 
mountain district; a rare winter visitor on Vancouver island. 
(Fannin.) Abundant in some winters in Chilliwack and entirely 
absent in others; abundant at Lake Okanagan, B.C., in the winter of 
1897-98, but less so the next winter; breeds. (Brooks.) Saw 
numbers of large flocks up the Columbia from Golden, B.C., De- 
cember 17th, 1899; and numbers up the Nicola, February 23rd, 
1898. (E. F. G. White.) 
On August 20th, 1899, the day we arrived at our winter camp 
on the Kowak, Cook inlet, Alaska, I saw a flock of 50 waxwings 
jn a bunch of spruce trees, but none afterwards. (Grinnell.) Three 
adults were seen at Moose camp, Alaska, October 8th, 1903. (Ander- 
son.) There is no record of this bird’s occurrence anywhere along the 
shores of Behring sea on the arctic; in the interior, however, it 
