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seen on the Columbia River, about eight miles below Deer Park, 

 B.C., June i8th, 1890 ; not rare at Trail and Cascade, B.C., in the 

 summer of 1902 ; taken at Sicamous, Kamloops and Agassiz in 

 1889. One pair seen at Chilliwack, B.C., May 27th, 1901. {Spread- 

 borough^ This species finds its northern limit in British Columbia 

 a few miles south of Clinton. It ranges east in the breeding season 

 to the Selkirk Mountains. I did not find it on the coast. {Rhoads.) 

 Vancouver Island and throughout British Columbia. {Lord.) Not 

 common on the coast, but more abundant in the interior. 

 {Streator.) East and west of Coast Range, but chiefly on the 

 mainland ; found breeding at Ashcroft. {lannin.) Summer 

 resident ; tolerably common at Chilliwack. {Brooks.) 



Bheeding Notes. — In the Red River region T. carolinensis alone 

 represents the genus ; but throughout the Upper Missouri and 

 Milk River country the two are found together, and it is hard to 

 say which is the most numerous. They have much the same 

 general habits and often associate intimately together ; indeed, I, 

 have known one tree to contain nests of both species. The cries 

 of verticalis are louder and harsher, with less of a sibilant 

 quality, than those of the king-bird ; but there is little else to note 

 as different. The nests of the verticalis are bulky and conspicu- 

 ous, all the more easily found because the bird has a way of leaving 

 the general woods of the river bottom to go up to the ravines 

 that make down from the hillsides, and there nest on some isolated 

 tree, miles away, perhaps, from any landmark. Taking nests of 

 both species at the same time, I found that those of verticalis 

 were generally distinguishable by their larger size and softer make, 

 with less fibrous and more fluffy material ; but the eggs, if mixed 

 together, could not be separated with any certainty. The sets of 

 eggs taken during the latter part of June consisted of from three to 

 six. Eggs were found as late as the second week of July. The 

 nests were placed in trees at a height of from five or six to forty 

 or fifty feet, generally in the crotch of a horizontal limb, at some 

 distance from the main trunk ; but in one case a nest was placed 

 in the crotch which the first large bough made with the trunk. In 

 one case a pair of the flycatchers built in tjie same tree that con- 

 tained the nest of Swainson's buzzard, and both kinds of birds 

 were incubating at peace with each other, if not with all the world, 

 when I came along to disturb them. In another one they nested 

 with a pair of king-birds. The birds display admirable courage in 



