732 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA. 



749a. Sitka Ruby-crowned Kinglet, 



Regulus calendula grinnelli Palmer. 1897. 



This kinglet was not very common, and I only observed it along 

 Indian river, at Sitka, Alaska, in tall firs; I saw them in pairs on 

 two occasions, but I secured no young. This kinglet doubtless 

 breeds, though not in abundance; three adult males were secured. 

 {Grinnell.) At Skagway, Alaska, I heard a Sitkan kinglet singing 

 May 31st, and at Haines took a male and heard another singing 

 June ist. At Glacier I took a male, June 6th, and during our stay 

 heard two or three others singing. While the Log Cabin bird is 

 normal calendula, the Haines and Glacier birds have the more olive 

 back and darker sides of crown of grinnelli. {Bishop.) 



CCLXXX. POLIOPTILA Sclater. 1851. 



751. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher. 



Polioptila c(Brulea ccerulea (Linn.) Sclater. 1855. 



An accidental visitant at Montreal. Mr. Kuetzing saw one exam- 

 ple of this species in Mr. Craig's collection, shot on the island of 

 Montreal a number of years ago, but Mr. Craig says he does not 

 remember having it in his possession. (Wintle.) Casual at Ottawa ; 

 one was shot by Mr. G. R. White, previous to 1881. (Ottawa Natur- 

 alist, Vol. V.) Three records at Toronto, Ont. ; a male. May 9th, 

 1885, in Mr. Ernest Seton's collection ; a female taken May 5th, 1891, 

 by Mr. O. Spanner and a female taken May loth, 1900, by Mr. C. 

 W. Nash. (/. H. Fleming). A not uncommon summer resident of 

 Ontario, west and south from London. {W. E. Saunders.) 



Family LV. TURDID.ffl. Thrushes, Solitaires, Etc. 



CCLXXXI. MYADESTES Swainson. 



754. Townsend Solitaire. 



Myadestes townsendi (AuD.) Cab. 1847. 



Observed at the Elbow river near Calgary, June 21st, 1897, com- 

 mon in the Rocky mountains south to Crow Nest pass in July, 1897 ; 

 a common species at Banff, breeding on mountains high up; seen 



