35^ GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA. 



I have found nests all the way from four to thirty feet from the 

 ground. {Spreadborougk.) 



MUSEUM SPECIMENS. 



Eight ; two taken in Algonquin Park, Ont.; one at Indian 

 Head, Assa.; three at Old Wives' Creek, Assa.; one at Medicine 

 Hat, Assa.; and one at Canmore within the Rocky Mountains, all 

 taken by Mr. Spreadborough. 



Five sets of eggs, three with four eggs each and two with three ; 

 all taken the first ten days of June, 1897, at Edmonton, Alta , by 

 Mr. Spreadborough. 



468. Hammond's Flycatcher. 



Empidonax hammondi (-Xantus) Baird. 1858. > 



Reference is made to some eggs of this flycatcher, obtained 

 from " Anderson River " in Vol. H. of the Proc. of the U.S. Nat, 

 Mus. by the late Dr. Brewer of Boston, which I conclude were 

 sent to the Smithsonian by me. (Macfarlmie.) Rather common ; 

 specimens from Ashcroft, Ducks, Mount Lehman, and New West- 

 minster, B.C. {Streator.) Chiefly on the mainland; east and west of 

 Coast Range; common at New Westminster, B.C. {Fannin.) This 

 species which appears to be the western representative of minimus 

 was only found in the Rocky Mountains where a single specimen 

 was secured in August, 1874. (Coues.) Taken on Lee's Creek, 

 near Cardston, southern Alberta, and at Waterton Lake, where 

 Dr. Coues obtained his specimen ; common at Trail, B.C., near 

 the International Boundary in the summer of 1902. June ist 

 found a nest in a hemlock tree, out on a slender branch about 16 

 feet from the ground. June 12th found another nest in a small 

 cedar tree about eight feet from the ground. Not uncommon 

 on Chilliwack River, B.C., in June, 1901. Saw one specimen 

 which I took to be this species on Mount Benson, hear Nanaimo, 

 Vancouver Island, July loth, 1893. {Spreadborough^ Of uniform 

 distribution on mainland and islands, B.C., breeding wherever 

 found. {Rhoads.) I have the nest with three eggs and the parent 

 bird that were collected for me by Mr. Wenman at the base of 

 Moberly Peak, Rocky Mountains. The nest was built six feet 

 from the ground on a branch of a tree and the eggs are creamy 

 white, they were collected May 31st, 1902. {W. Raine.) We saw 



