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588o. Spurred Towhee. 



PipUo mactUatus megalonyx (Baird) Coues. 1872. 



At Pass creek near Robson, Columbia valley, a strange bird 

 was seen in a tree on June 20th, 1890; it had a very long tail and 

 was new to us; the next day it was seen again and we decided it 

 was a towhee; on the 26th, Prof. Macoun flushed a bird off its nest 

 under a bush of Ceanothus velutinus and he immediately shot it. 

 The male then came along and was shot also; they proved to be 

 this form; within the nest were four half -grown young which we 

 drowned ; common everywhere at Trail, B.C., in low bushes, 

 young ready to fly, June ist, 1902 ; common in low brush at Pentic- 

 ton, south of Lake Okanagan, B.C., April, 1903; also at Sicamous 

 and Enderby, B.C.; a pair seen at Elko, B.C., May 4th, 1904, and 

 found to be common in low bushes on hillsides at Osoyoos lake, 

 B.C., June, 1905. (Spreadborough.) An adult male and female 

 taken at Ashcroft. (Streator.) East of Coast range; breeds at 

 Ashcroft. (Fannin.) Abundantly haunting the woodlands of all 

 points visited in British Columbia up to 4000 feet. (Rhoads.) 



5886. Oregon Towhee. 



Pipilo mactUatus oregonus (Bell) Coues. 1872. 



Abtmdant on the coast at Hastings on Burrard inlet and at 

 Port Heney and Agassiz on the Eraser river, in 1899; very abund- 

 ant at Chilliwack, Douglas and Huntingdon near the International 

 Botmdary; abundant on Vancouver island and on the islands in 

 the Gulf of Georgia. (Spreadborough.) Abundant on the coast of 

 British Columbia; breeds. (Streator.) An abundant resident west 

 of the Coast range; winters on the coast. (Fannin.) Common 

 at Chilliwack; permanent resident. (Brooks.) Replacing mega- 

 lonyx west of the Coast range ; its exact counterpart in habits 

 and habitat. (Rhoads.) Rather common around Vancouver, B.C. 

 and Stanley park in July, 1895. (E. F. G. White.) 



CCXXXII. CAEDINALIS Bonaparte. 1837. 



593. Cardinal. Red-bird. 



Cardinalis cardinalis (Linn.) Light. , 1854. 



Two were seen, a male and a female at Scotch Lake, York county, 

 N.B., August 2oth, 1900. (W. H. Moore.) The cardinal can be only 



