CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS. 38 1 



wings and striking various coquettish attitudes, but thelatterwould 

 quickly turn upon him, as if to repel his advances at such a serious 

 time. Then both birds would pause for a moment within six 

 inches of each other, with their beaks wide open, and mayhap 

 a snap or two. The nest proper was built on a loose foundation 

 of slender spruce twigs. The walls and bottom consisted of a 

 closely felted mass of a black hair-like lichen, many short bits of 

 spruce twigs, feathers of ptarmigan and hawk owls, strips of a 

 fibrous bark and a few grasses. The interior is lined with the 

 softest and finest grained material. The whole fabric is of such a 

 quality as to accomplish the greatest conservation of warmth, 

 vvhich certainly must be necessary where incubation is carried on 

 in below zero weather. {Joseph Grinnell.) 



484c. Labrador Jay. 



Perisoreus canadensis nigricapillus Ridgw. 1882. 



Locally common in northeastern Labrador especially as far 

 north as Port Manvers. {Bigelow.) Coastwise and interior, 

 especially abundant ; resident and breeds at Fort Chimo, Labra- 

 dor. {Packard.) 



Breeding Notes. — I have a nest and four eggs of this bird that 

 were taken at Hamilton Inlet, Labrador, March 20th, 1894. The 

 nest was built in a larch, tree and is a beautiful structure of inter- 

 laced twigs, the nest proper being a compact woven felt-like 

 structure of fur, hair and feathers. {W. Raine.) A nest taken by 

 Mr. A. P. Low at Rigolet, Hamilton Inlet, Labrador, 25th March, 

 1894, is quite a bulky affair. The outside is chiefly made up of 

 dead twigs chiefly of tamarac (larch) with a few of white spruce. 

 The inside is of down, feathers, hair, fur and strips of the inner 

 bark of willow felted together. 



MUSEUM specimens. 



Two sets of eggs, one of three and the other of four, both 

 taken at Rigolet, Hamilton Inlet, Labrador, March 25th, 1894, by 

 Mr. A. P. Low. 



-485. Oregon Jay. 



Perisoreus obscurus (Ridgw.) Sharpe. 1877. 



An abundant resident throughout the province. {Fanning 

 Common resident on mountains above Chilliwack, B.C. {Brooks^ 



