726 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA. 
Lake Okanagan, B.C., in winter. (Brooks.) Very common on the 
coast and islands of British Columbia, but not found east of the 
Coast range. (Rhoads.) Very common at English bay, Vancouver, 
August 8th, 1894. (E. F. G. White.) Common everywhere, especi- 
ally in the younger firs at the heads of the bays and inlets. First 
young, fully fledged, taken June 26th, near Sitka, Alaska. (Grin- 
nell.) Abundant on Queen Charlotte islands, B.C. Seven specimens 
taken by us. (Osgood.) We found a few at Haines and Skagway, 
Alaska, and I took one and heard another at Glacier, June 5th. 
A female taken at Skagway, June 3rd, had finished laying. (Bishop.) 
A very complete account of the origin and distribution of this 
species by Joseph Grinnell was published in The Auk, Vol. XXI, 
Pp. 364 et seq. 
CCLXXVII. PSALTRIPARUS Eonaparre. 1850. 
743, Puget Sound Bush-tit. 
Psaltriparus nunimus saturatus RIDGWAY. 1904. 
I shot two specimens out of a considerable number on 25th Novem- 
ber, 1899, but could not find any the next day at the same place, nor 
have I ever seen them before, though I have looked out for them. 
(Brooks.) This last reference is presumably to the Fraser river 
valley. (Macoun.) 
Famity LV. SYLVIIDAG. Wars.ers, KINGLETS, ETC. 
CCLXXVIII. ACANTHOPNEUSTE Brastus. 1858. 
Acanthopneuste borealis kennicottt (BAIRD RIDGW. 1904. 
Western Alaska (St. Michael, Nushagak, Alloknagik river, Kowak 
river, etc.) (Ridgway.) The original record of this bird in America 
was based on the capture of a single specimen at St. Michael, on 
August 16th, 1866, by the naturalist of the Western Union Telegraph 
expedition. During the summer of 1877, on July 26th and 31st, I 
obtained two specimens on each of the days mentioned, as they 
were searching the old board fences surrounding the houses at 
St. Michael. A few others were obtained later and they were 
seen the next year. (Nelson.) Two were discovered flitting rapidly 
among the foliage of some birches a hundred yards back from the 
Kowak river Kotzebue sound, near our winter cabin. Their be- 
