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Bent.) Some of the references under C. hrachyrhynchus probably 

 should go here. 



Rather rare along the Columbia flats at Revelstoke, B.C. ; heard 

 at Pass creek, Columbia river, B.C. ; common at Agassiz and Kam- 

 loops, B.C., in 1889; common at Osoyoos lake and Similkameen 

 river in 1905; saw three on the shore of a small lake at Elko, B.C. in 

 1904; abundant and breeding at Penticton, April, 1903. {Spread- 

 borough.) Found breeding at Ashcroft, B.C. (Streator.) Common 

 summer resident, east of coast range. (Fannin.) 



Breeding Notes. — Found a nest May 5th, 1905, at Midway, 

 B.C., in a poplar tree about 8 feet from the ground. It was made of 

 sticks and lined with grass and fine bark from poplar trees. Saw 

 several nests in clumps of willow along Meyers creek on the same 

 day. (Spreadborough.) 



489. Northwest Crow. 



Corvus caurinus Baird. 1858. 



Chiefly west of Coast range ; very abundant on the coast ; resident. 

 {Fannin.) Common resident at Chilliwack, B.C. {Brooks.) Very 

 abundant from Chilliwack to Huntingdon, B.C., in 190 1; a most 

 abundant species on Vancouver island, Uving the whole year along 

 the coasts of the island and breeding in small spruce and Douglas fir 

 trees; in May, 1887, a colony bred in small spruce on Comox spit. 

 There may be two forms of this western species, but I have never 

 been able to satisfactorily separate them. {Spreadborough.) On the 

 west coast crows are abundant. In the interior of British Columbia 

 they are found in diminished numbers. Their habits and voices 

 are essentially the same. {Rhoads.) I have two sets of four eggs 

 each that were taken on Vancouver island, May 12th, 1889, by Mr 

 Fannin. (W. Raine.) Not common on Queen Charlotte islands. 

 A flock of about thirty was seen several times near the head of 

 Cumshewa inlet. {Osgood.) Bischoff obtained numerous speci- 

 mens of this little-known bird at Sitka. Dr. Bean also found it 

 abundant at Sitka. {Nelson.) Common on all the small islands in 

 the bay at Sitka, Alaska, especially on St. Lazaria island, where the 

 young and eggs of the sea birds constituted its staple articles of 

 food. {Grinnell.) Abundant at Seldovia, Alaska. {Anderson.) 



