744 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA. 
sula, July 5th, 1901, extends the breeding range of this form. 
Several seen on Kenai during the summer. A nest containing two 
fresh eggs was found the latter part of June. (Fvggins.) 
BREEDING NoTes.—At Edmonton, Alta., on May 31st, 1897, I 
found what I took to be an olive-back’s nest. It was built upon 
the top of a willow stump that had ‘been chopped off about six- 
teen inches from the ground. I saw the bird leave the nest and 
tried to get a shot, but she was too wary. I shot a male near the 
nest at the time. The nest was composed of weeds lined with 
dry grass, eggs four, blue and quite fresh. June 11th found an- 
other nest and four eggs in the fork of a willow about four feet 
from the ground; nest composed of weeds and dirt, lined with dry 
grass; eggs light-blue with brownish spots. (Spreadborough.) At 
Lake Nominingue, about 100 miles north of Ottawa, this thrush 
takes the place of Wilson’s thrush. On July Ist, t901, a nest with 
two young birds was found in a maple tree, six feet from the 
ground. It was made of grass and green moss and lined with 
dry leaves and rootlets; nest 4 by 3 and 2.60 x 2. (Garneau.) A 
nest found June 16th, 1902, at Scotch Lake, York co., N.B., had 
four fresh eggs. Nest composed of twigs and moss, lined with 
skeleton leaves, 30 feet up in a tall spruce, and eight feet out on 
the limb. (W. H. Moore.) 
759. Kadiak Hermit Thrush. 
Hylocichla guttata guttata (PALLAS) BREWSTER. 1902. 
Two male birds in fresh fall plumage were taken at Hope, Cook 
inlet, August 26th and 29th respectively; these are very olivaceous 
on the upper parts and agree with a bird taken at Circle City, 
Alaska, August 18th, 1899. |The above specimens are considered 
verecunda by Mr. Osgood.; Two specimens were taken at Hope 
and Tyonek, Cook inlet, Alaska, September 7th and 14th res- 
pectively. These are in fresh fall plumage and are somewhat more 
olivaceous than fall birds from Kadiak. (Osgood.) Mr. Osgood 
considers the latter true aonalaschke and cites Kadiak island as the 
home of the type. (Macoun.) 
We heard several singing at Skagway, and Osgood took one at 
Haines, June 2nd, 1899. At Glacier they were tolerably common, 
