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whole region under consideration. {Coues.) The nests of this 

 species are usually built in an apple tree in some orchard, and are 

 constructed of dried grasses, weed stems, wool and hair. Wool is 

 the most conspicuous article used in building. One nest observed 

 was within three feet of the ground, being situated in a small 

 apple tree and was plainly exposed, there being nothing whatever 

 to conceal it. ( W. H. Moore?) 



MUSEUM SPECIMENS. 



Eleven; one purchased with the Holman collection in 1885; 

 three taken at Ottawa, two of these by Prof. Macoun and one by Mr. 

 F. A. Saunders ; one taken at Carberry, Man., by Mr. Thompson- 

 Seton ; two at Medicine Hat, Assa., two at Banff, Rocky Moun- 

 tains, one at Deer Park, B.C., and another at Kamloops, B.C., all 

 by Mr. Spreadborough. 



Four sets of eggs. One set of four eggs, taken on Gull River, 

 Minden, Ont., June i6th, 1896, by Mr. A. E. Barlow; one set of 

 four taken on Gull River, Minden, Ont., June 14th, 1894, by Mr. 

 A. A. Cole. Nest in an alder three inches above the water of 

 Gull River. One set of three, taken in a wild rose bush, at Crane 

 Lake, Assa., June 12th, 1894; by Prof. Macoun. One set of three, 

 taken at Edmonton, Alta., June loth, 1897, by Mr. Spread- 

 borough. • 



445. Gray King-bird. 



Tyrannus dominie ensis (Gmel.) Richardson. 1837. 



One specimen taken at Cape Beale (west coast of Vancouver 

 Island, September 29th, 1889, by Miss Cox, and presented to the 

 museum at Victoria. {Fannin.) 



-447. Arkansas King-bird. 



Tyrannus verticalis Say. 1823. 



Two specimens of this species, an adult and one in first plumage, 

 were taken by Mr. D. Losh Thorpe at Souris coalfields, 

 August 20th, 1891, a little west of Manitoba. {Thompson-Seton.) 

 Observed at Old Wives' Creek, Assa"., its most eastern limit as far 

 as my observation goes, on May 26th, 1895 > ^'^o ^^ Medicine Hat, 

 Assa., in May, 1894 ; nesting both at Medicine Hat and Crane 

 Lake ; quite common at Castellated Rocks, near the West Butte, 

 on Milk River, in July, 1895, ^^^^ westward to the Rocky Moun- 

 tains ; breeding in great numbers in southern Alberta ; one pair 



