CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS. 703 



matter, hair and feathers. This set was completed on the 8th of 

 May and is the earliest date I have ever taken their eggs. Of the 

 seven nests collected in this vicinity four contained six eggs each,, 

 and three five ; all of these were built in the upturned roots of fallen 

 trees, which is evidently their favourite nesting place, though it 

 certainly builds in other situations. {Wm. L. Kelts.) 



722a. Western Winter Wren. 



Olbiorchilus hiemalis paciflcus (Baird) Oberh. 1902. 



Common in thick spruce woods from Lesser Slave lake to Peace 

 River Landing, latitude 56° 15', in June, 1903; observed one on 

 Moose mountain, southwest of Calgary, June 30th, 1897, another 

 observed in Crow Nest pass, July 28th, 1897 ; first seen at Revelstoke, 

 on the Columbia, April loth, 1890, later they became more common 

 and nested in the thick woods; quite common in thick woods at 

 Trail on the 49th parallel in the summer of 1902; three specimens 

 seen at Penticton, B.C., in April, 1903 ; common in the woods around 

 Burrard inlet and Agassiz, on the Fraser river, B.C., April, 1889; 

 common at Fernie, B.C., in 1904; seen near Midway, B.C., April, 

 1905, and common between the Skagit river and Chilliwack lake and 

 along the Hope trail in July of the same year; common at Douglas, 

 B.C., where I found a nest in the roots of an upturned tree ; abundant 

 along the Chilliwack river, in the mountains near the 49th parallel ; 

 also observed a few at Huntingdon, B.C., nearer the coast in 1901 ; 

 a common resident throughout Vancouver island, preferring thick 

 woods. (Spreadborough.) Rather common, British Columbia. (Lord.) 

 Confined principally to the coast region; breeds. (Streator.) A 

 resident chiefly of the coast ; abundant. (Fannin.) Common resid- 

 ent at Chilliwack. Tolerably common throughout the winter at 

 Lake Okanagan, B.C. (Brooks.) Abundant on the coast of British 

 Columbia. Two moulting birds from Selkirk mountains near Nelson,. 

 B.C., are even darker than skins from Puget sound. (Rhoads.) 

 From Sitka, Bischoff sent four specimens during his collecting there, 

 and others have been collected at Kadiak. (Nelson.) Tolerably 

 common in the more open forests at Sitka, Alaska, where there is 

 much recently fallen timber. Especially numerous on St. Lazaria 

 island where their clear sprightly songs constantly uttered, seemed 

 scarcely in accord with the harsh cries of the thousands of sea-fowL 

 (Grinnell.) We noticed a few at Glacier above Skagway, Alaska,. 



