CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS. 585 



(Streator.) Common all over the province; breeds in the banks at 

 Beacon hill, Victoria. {Fannin.) Common summer resident at 

 Chilliwack. (Brooks.) Not common in British Columbia, but of 

 the same distribution as the barn swallow. (Rhoads.) Common at 

 Revelstoke, Salmon arm and Agassiz and breeding in the Sea Bird 

 bluffs near Vancouver, B.C., in May, 1897. (E. F. G. White.) 



Family XLV. AMPELID.S!. Waxwings. 

 CCXLV. AMPELIS. Linn^us. 1766. 

 618. Bolieinian Waxwing. 



Ampelis garrulus Linn, i 766. 



A flock appeared at the Three-mile House, near Halifax, N.S., 

 in the winter of 1864-5, but none have been seen since up to the 

 time of writing. (Downs.) Some winters, quite plentiful at St. 

 Stephens, N.B. (Chamberlain.) Observed in winter at Harvej^ 

 York county, N.B.; rare. (W. H. Moore.) Taken at Lorette; a 

 winter migrant at Quebec. (Dionne.) A rare winter visitant at 

 Montreal. I have not seen them myself and have no recent record 

 of their occurrence in the vicinity of Montreal. {Wintte.) 



A winter visitor. It is now many years since this bird has visited 

 us in large numbers. (Ottawa Naturalist, Vol. V.) But seldom 

 met with in the county of Leeds, in eastern Ontario. One winter I 

 saw two of them sitting on a rail fence and quite tame. On June 

 14th, 1899, I found a nest in a rough, rocky part of the country 

 near Charleston lake, Leeds county, that I attributed to this species. 

 It was built in a crolch of a soft maple that grew in a wet swampy 

 place. The nest contained two eggs, measuring i . 10 x .70 and 

 0.94 X .68. They are noticably larger than any cedar bird I ever 

 saw. They are of the same ground colour, but sparingly spotted 

 with round black spots. The nest was a firm, substantial structure, 

 quite deep and built of rootlets, twigs and fibres; not of grass and 

 straws as most of the cedar birds have been that I have seen. A 

 few were seen at Cataraqui near Kingston, Ont. in February, 1904, 

 and others were observed in the same locality in 1907. (Rev. C. J. 

 Young.) Occurs rarely in the Parry Sound and Muskoka districts 

 in winter. Only visits Toronto occasionally. When it does so it 



