336 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA. 



mer of 1902. {Spreadborough.) A very few small " hummers " 

 frequenting the interior and southern Rocky Mountain districts, 

 B.C., were probably S. calliope. {Rhoads.) 



MUSEUM SPECIMENS. 



Five ; two taken at Banff, Rocky Mountains ; two at Deer 

 Park, Columbia River, B.C. ; and one at Spence's Bridge, B.C., all 

 by Mr. Spreadborough. 



One set of two eggs taken at Elka Station, on the Crow's Nest 

 Pass Railway, B.C., June, 1900, by Mr. J. Keele. The nest differs 

 from that of the rufous humming-bird in being smaller and having 

 less lichen on the outside. It was fastened to the small twigs of 

 a dead branch of a spruce tree. 



Order PASSERES. Perching Birds. 



Family XXXVIII. TYRANNID^ffi. Tyrant Flycatchers. 



CLX. MUSCIVORA Lacepede. 

 442. Scissor-tailed Flycatcher. 



Muscivora forficata. (Gmel.) Oberholser. 1901. 



The swallow-tailed flycatcher (Muscivora forficata) is such a 

 characteristically southern bird that its accidental occurrence in 

 Manitoba is worthy of note. Last January I was shown a splendid 

 specimen taken at Portage la Prairie by Mr. Nash. He found it 

 lying dead on the prairie on the 20th October, 1884. Its 

 stomach was empty and the bird very emaciated, although in fine 

 plumage. On the previous night there was a sharp frost. In 

 addition to this record, I quote the following rather startling 

 statement from the report on the Hudson Bay, by Professor Bell, 

 of the Canadian Geological Survey, 1882. " But the most singular 

 discovery in regard to geographical distribution is the finding of 

 the scissor-tail, or swallow-tailed flycatcher {Muscivora forficata) 

 at York Factory, Hudson Bay. The specimen in the Government 

 Museum was shot at York Factory in the supimer of 1880, "and I 

 have learned since that these remarkable birds were occasionally 

 seen at the posts of the Hudson Bay Company, all the way west 

 to the valley of the Mackenzie River." (Tfiompson-Seton) 

 On July 9th, 1899, the writer was out in the country about 26 

 miles north of Winnipeg, and being out for a walk about 5:30 



