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is rather common, and specimens were brought to me from Nulato 
and Fort Reliance on the Yukon; the only examples we have (from 
Alaska) of the waxwing’s nest and eggs were taken by Kennicott 
at Fort Reliance, Yukon, on 4th July, 1861. (Nelson.) This bird 
is only an occasional visitor to the coast; specimens were obtained 
from Nulato and Fort Yukon. (Turner.) We saw several on 
Six-mile river, July 1st; two at Lake Marsh, July 7th; one on 
Fifty-mile river, July 1oth; two pairs at Miles cafion, July 11th; 
and later they were seen in pairs and families at many points on the 
Yukon to near Circle City; the last were seen August 12th; the 
birds that we collected had been feeding on the purple berries of 
some unidentified plant. (Bzshop.) 
The plant referred to above was likely the bog blueberry (Vac- 
cuntum uliginosum) which was abundant on mossy slopes and sphag- 
num flats between Dawson and Selkirk. Berries ripe at Dawson, 
lat. 64° 15’, July roth, 1902. (Macoun.) 
BREEDING Notes.—Breeding from 150-Mile House northward; 
I arrived at Quesnel too late for eggs, but kept a sharp lookout 
for waxwings the following spring at 150-Mile House; I first noticed 
them there on 11th June, when I came across a small flock and shot 
one which proved on dissection to be a female about to lay. On 
returning to the same spot I found the waxwings, consisting of a 
colony of five pairs of birds, still there, and soon discovered a nest 
in a Murray pine, near the end of a limb and about 25 feet up; this 
then (12th June) contained two eggs; on the 15th I took this set, 
which then consisted of four eggs; the nest was loose and bulky, 
composed of Usnea moss, dry grass and weed stems, and lined with 
fine material, with a few green aspen leaves in the lining, no doubt to 
render the eggs less conspicuous; on the 26th June I carefully looked 
over all the trees in the neighbourhood with my binocular, and 
found three more nests, all in tall Douglas fir trees; two of these I 
was able to climb to; each contained four eggs within a few days of 
hatching; the nests were similar to the first but without the green 
aspen leaves, probably due to the fact that the nests were better 
concealed from above; I.was unable to reach the fourth nest, nor 
could I find that of the remaining pair of birds. (Brooks.) Early 
in June, 1893, I saw and heard this bird chattering in the woods on 
the slopes of Squaw mountain at Banff in the Rockies; my guide 
