732 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA. 
7494. Sitka Ruby-crowned Kinglet, 
Regulus calendula grinnell1 PALMER. 1897. 
This kinglet was not very common, and I only observed it along 
Indian river, at Sitka, Alaska, in tall firs; I saw them in pairs on 
two occasions, but I secured no young. This kinglet doubtless 
breeds, though not in abundance; three adult males were secured. 
(Grinnell.) At Skagway, Alaska, I heard a Sitkan kinglet singing 
May 31st, and at Haines took a male and heard another singing 
June 1st. At Glacier I took a male, June 6th, and during our stay 
heard two or three others singing. While the Log Cabin bird is 
normal calendula, the Haines and Glacier birds have the more olive 
back and darker sides of crown of grinnellt. (Bishop.) 
CCLXXX. POLIOPTILA Scrater. 1851. 
751. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher. 
Polioptila cerulea cerulea (LINN.) SCLATER. 1855. 
An accidental visitant at Montreal. Mr. Kuetzing saw one exam- 
ple of this species in Mr. Craig’s collection, shot on the island of 
Montreal a number of years ago, but Mr. Craig says he does not 
remember having it in his possession. (Wuntle.) Casual at Ottawa; 
one was shot by Mr. G: R. White, previous to 1881. (Ottawa Natur- 
alist, Vol. V.) Three records at Toronto, Ont.; a male, May oth, 
1885, in Mr. Ernest Seton’s collection; a female taken May 5th, 1891, 
by Mr. O. Spanner and a female taken May roth, 1900, by Mr. C. 
W. Nash. (/. H. Fleming). A not uncommon summer resident of 
Ontario, west and south from London. (W. E. Saunders.) 
Famity LV. TURDIDAG. TurusueEs, SoLiralires, Etc. 
CCLXXXI. MYADESTES Swainson. 
754. Townsend Solitaire. 
Myadestes townsendt (AupD.) CAB. 1847. 
Observed at the Elbow river near Calgary, June 21st, 1897, com- 
mon in the Rocky mountains south to Crow Nest pass in July, 1897; 
a common species at Banff, breeding on mountains high up; seen 
