CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS. 701 
saw a number on the 2nd summit west of the Skagit, young and 
old in August at an altitude of 6,000 feet.(Spreadborough.) Local 
and not uncommon and breeding in suitable places at Prince Albert, 
Sask. (Coubeaux.) Only one specimen of this beautiful bird was 
shot at Fort Franklin in July, 1825. It is merely a summer visitor 
to the Northwest Territories. (Richardson.) A pair nested in the 
Canadian Pacific storeroom at Donald, B.C., in May, 1894. (E. F. 
G. White.) Seen only east of the Coast range. (Lord.) I found 
one or two pairs of this species breeding in the mountains at Ash- 
croft, B.C. (Streator.) A summer resident east of the Coast range. 
(Fannin.) Common in migration at Chilliwack. (Brooks.) Abund- 
ant in northern and western interior portions of British Columbia. 
(Rhoads.) This species is recorded by Hartlaub from Dejah, 
southeastern Alaska, April 20th and 21st; as it was seen on these 
two days only and at this point it cannot be at all common in the 
territory. (Nelson.) 
BREEDING NoTes.—Found nesting in a hole in a clay butte at 
Medicine Lodge, south of Wood mountain, June 14th, 1895. The 
nest was wholly composed of the outer bark of the old stems of 
Bigelovia graveolens, a composite plant that grew in profusion 
near the site of the nest. It contained seven light blue eggs. An- 
other nest taken under the same conditions along Frenchman 
river, Sask., on June 21st, was built of the outer bark of sage brush 
(Artemisia cana) and contained the same number of eggs. (Macouwn.) 
