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about the middle of May, I have seen fresh eggs on the 15th of the 

 month. In its habit of excavating a hole for itself it resembles the 

 European marsh titmouse, the only one of the titmice that does so. 

 In its note, and otherwise, it closely resembles this species (Parus 

 palustris). Though during spring and summer it is a bird of the 

 woods, in cold winter weather it approaches the homes and out- 

 buildings; the present winter (1904) this was especially the case. 

 {Rev. C. J. Young.) Specimens collected by Streator, Fannin and 

 Spreadborough in central British Columbia are said by Ridgway to 

 be this species. 



735a. Long-tailed Chickadee. 



Penthestes atricapillus septentrionalis (Harris) Ridgw. 1904. 



One taken at the Lower Echimamish, June 24th, 1901. {E. A. 

 Preble.) A specimen of this form was procured at Chief Mountain 

 lake. Rocky mountains, on August 28th, 1874. (Coues.) Resident 

 in Manitoba in wooded sections. The Manitoba bird is not strictly 

 septentrionalis but is nearer to that form than to atricapillus. (E. 

 T. Seton.) A common breeding resident at Aweme, Manitoba. 

 (Criddle.) Abundant resident in all the wooded districts of Mani- 

 toba and noted west as far as Edmonton in 1906. (Atkinson.) 

 Tolerably common in the Cypress hills and the upper part of Maple 

 creek, Sask. (Bishop.) Only one individual was seen in a three 

 months' residence at Indian Head, Sask., in the spring of 1892; two 

 were seen in a willow thicket in the east end of the Cypress hills, 

 June 27th, 1894; common from Lesser Slave lake to Peace River 

 Landing, lat. 56° 15', in June, 1903; tolerably common at Edmon- 

 ton, Alta. by April 17th; May 25th found a nest in a poplar stub 

 about seven feet from the ground, the nest containing eight young; 

 common from Edmonton to Athabaska pass in June, 1898 ; observed 

 a number on Elbow river and at Crow Nest lake, July 31st, 1897; 

 common and breeding in the mountain woods at Banff, Rocky moun- 

 tains, in the summer of 1891 ; shot at Revelstoke, B.C., on April 9th, 

 1890, fairly common during April and May; in June it was common 

 at Deer Park, on the Columbia river; a nest containing four eggs 

 was taken at Robson on June 24th, 1890, it was on an old tree 

 hanging over the water of PaSs creek; observed about a dozen at 

 Penticton, B.C., in April, 1903; several seen in the Kootenay valley 

 near Elko, B.C., in 1904, and several south of Hope, B.C., in 1905. 



