CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS. 761 



saw a number on the 2nd summit west of the Skagit, young and 

 old in August at an altitude of 6,000 ieet.(Spreadborough.) Local 

 and not uncommon and breeding in suitable places at Prince Albert, 

 Sask. (Coubeaux.) Only one specimen of this beautiful bird was 

 shot at Fort Franklin in July, 1825. It is merely a summer visitor 

 to the Northwest Territories. (Richardson.) A pair nested in the 

 Canadian Pacific storeroom at Donald, B.C., in May, 1894. (E. F. 

 G. White.) Seen only east of the Coast range. {Lord.) I found 

 one or two pairs of this species breeding in the mountains at Ash- 

 croft, B.C. (Streator.) A summer resident east of the Coast range. 

 (Fannin.) Common in migration at Chilhwack. (Brooks.) Abund- 

 ant in northern and western interior portions of British Columbia. 

 (Rhoads.) This species is recorded by Hartlaub from Dejah, 

 southeastern Alaska, April 20th and 21st; as it was seen on these 

 two days only and at this point it cannot be at all common in the 

 territory. (Nelson.) 



Breeding Notes. — Found nesting in a hole in a clay butte at 

 Medicine Lodge, south of Wood mountain, June 14th, 1895. The 

 nest was wholly composed of the outer bark of the old stems of 

 Bigelovia graveolens, a composite plant that grew in profusion 

 near the site of the nest. It contained seven light blue eggs. An- 

 other nest taken under the same conditions along Frenchman 

 river, Sask., on June 21st, was built of the outer bark of sage brush 

 (Artemisia cana) and contained the same number of eggs. (Macoun.) 



