726 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA. 



Lake Okanagan, B.C., in winter. (Brooks.) Very common on the 

 coast and islands of Britisli Columbia, but not found east of the 

 Coast range. (Rhoads.) Very common at English bay, Vancouver, 

 August 8th, 1894. (E. F. G. White.) Common everywhere, especi- 

 ally in the younger firs at the heads of the bays and inlets. First 

 young, fully fledged, taken June 26th, near Sitka, Alaska. {Grin- 

 nell.) Abundant on Queen Charlotte islands, B.C. Seven specimens 

 taken by us. (Osgood.) We found a few at Haines and Skagway, 

 Alaska, and I took one and heard another at Glacier, June 5th. 

 A female taken at Skagway, June 3rd, had finished la3dng. (Bishop.) 

 A very complete account of the origin and distribution of this 

 species by Joseph Grinnell was published in The Auk, Vol. XXI, 

 p. 364 et seq. 



CCLXXVII. PSALTRIPARUS Bonaparte. 1850. 



743. Puget Sound Bush-tit. 



Psaltriparus minimus saturatus Ridgway. 1904. 



I shot two specimens out of a considerable number on 25th Novem- 

 ber, 1 899, but could not find any the next day at the same place, nor 

 have I ever seen them before, though I have looked out for them. 

 (Brooks.) This last reference is presumably to the Fraser river 

 valley. (Macoun.) 



Family LV. SYLVIID.3E. Warblers, Kinglets, etc. 



CCLXXVIII. ACANTHOPNEUSTE Blasius. 1858. 



Acanthopneuste borealis kennicotti (Baird Ridgw. 1904. 



Western Alaska (St. Michael, Nushagak, Alloknagik river, Kowak 

 river, etc.) (Ridgway.) The original record of this bird in America 

 was based on the capture of a single specimen at St. Michael, on 

 August 1 6th, 1866, by the naturaUst of the Western Union Telegraph 

 expedition. During the siunmer of 1877, on July 26th and 31st, I 

 obtained two specimens on each of the days mentioned, as they 

 were searching the old board fences surrounding the houses at 

 St. Michael. A few others were obtained later and they were 

 seen the next year. (Nelson.) Two were discovered flitting rapidly 

 among the fohage of some birches a hundred yards back from the 

 Kowak river Kotzebue sound, near our winter cabin. Their be- 



