CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS. 731 
common at the south end of Methye portage. (J. M. Macoun.) 
North to Fort Resolution on the Mackenzie river; rare. (Ross.) 
There is no doubt but this bird is to be met with during the summer 
season on the Anderson river, but we found no nests. (Macfarlane.) 
Seen only east of the Coast range. (Lord.) Found only in the 
coast region during autumnal migration. (Streator.) Abundant 
in the district west of the Coast range. (Fannin.) Common 
winter visitant at Chilliwack; breeds on the mountains. (Brooks.) 
Numerous on the coast of British Columbia in spring. Breeding 
in the interior. (Rhoads.) 
This handsome species has been secured from various portions 
of the territory. The various Alaskan records include Fort Yukon, 
Nulato, Anvik, in the north, with Sitka and Fort Kenai on the 
southeastern coast. (Nelson.) Specimens of this bird were 
obtained from Fort Yukon, where it is common, breeding there. 
At Nushagak, on Bristol bay, I saw a single specimen of this bird 
flitting amongst the willows which skirt the river. (Turner.) On 
the 23rd August, I shot one specimen and saw two others in a 
willow copse bordering the Kowak, a couple of miles above our 
winter camp. I did not see the species again until June roth, in 
Kowak delta, Kotzebue sound, Alaska. (Grinnell.) 
BREEDING NotTes.—I have a beautiful nest containing eleven 
eggs that was taken at Dartmouth, Nova Scotia on June 1st, 1898; 
this nest was suspended from the branch of a black spruce tree, 20 
feet from the ground; besides this one I have four others taken at 
the same place and all alike in structure; the nests were round 
balls of green moss well lined with feathers and were suspended 
from the branches of spruce trees. (W. Raine.) Breeding near 150- 
Mile House, B.C.; on the 11th June I found a nest in a small spruce 
not four feet high; the nest was close to the stem and about two 
feet from the ground; it was a very deep cup, almost a vertical 
cylinder; the sitting bird must have been entirely concealed; it 
contained five eggs, a sixth imperfect one was sticking in the found- 
ation of the nest; it had evidently been pushed through the lining 
and a fresh floor built over it; the owners were raising a great outcry 
over the intrusion of a wandering brood of ‘‘whiskey jacks”; two 
grouse feathers were carefully put over the entrance to the nest, 
which made me think that it had been rifled by the jays and the 
lining pulled out. (Brooks.) 
