CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS. 755 
a spruce tree, 15 feet from the ground. The nest is made of goose 
grass and is six inches in diameter and three inches deep. The 
eggs are a paler blue than a robin’s, and are spotted with brown. 
(W. Raine.) For a full account of the nesting habits of this species, 
see Pacific Coast Fauna of the Cooper Ornithological Club for Nov- 
ember 14th, 1900. 
CCLXXVI. CYANOSYLVIA Breum. 1828. 
764. Red-spotted Bluethroat. \ 
Cyanosylvia suecia (LINN.) BREHM. 1828. 
On the 5th June, 1851, Dr. Adams found a flock of seven of these 
handsome birds feeding about some willows in the vicinity of St, 
Michael. They were very shy and he succeeded in obtaining a 
single specimen. (Nelson.) I met with this species in the vicinity 
of Cape Blossom, Kotzebue sound, Alaska, on July 3rd, 1899. The 
locality was the side of a ravine between two hills of the first range 
about a mile back from the mission. This hillside was of a gentle 
slope, and was clothed with thick patches of dwarf willows, one to 
two feet in height. That this species was breeding at Cape Blossom, 
I have no doubt, but time did not permit as the Penelope arrived 
and I had to leave; I procured two specimens however. (Grinnell.) 
CCLXXVIT. SAXICOLA BEcusTEIN. 1803. 
765. Wheatear. 
Saxicola enanthe enanthe (LINN.) BECHST. 1803. 
During the Western Union Telegraph Expedition, Mr. Dall saw 
several large flocks of these birds near Nulato, on May 23rd and 
24th, 1868, and learned from the natives of their abundance upon 
the stony hill-tops back from the river. At St. Michael, Norton 
sound, I found them to occur in spring and fall rather irregularly 
They were not very rare, and the natives informed me that they 
were common upon the bare mountain tops in the interior, fre- 
quenting the summer range of the reindeer. The wheatear was also 
found at Port Clarence, in Behring strait, at the head of Kotzebue 
sound, at Cape Lisburne, by Dr. Bean. (Nelson.) This bird is very 
erratic in its occurrence in northern Alaska. Early in the spring 
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