CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS. 4I9 



on the International Boundary, B.C., September loth, 1902. 

 (Spreadborough.) 



Breeding Notes. — I have a nest and 4 eggs that were taken at 

 Banff in the Rocky Mountains, Jiine. ^rd, i8q6 The nest is com- 

 posed of twigs, roots, and grass ; lined with fine roots and hair. 

 It was built on the branch of a spruce tree about 15 feet from the 

 ground. {W. Raine.) 



museum specimens. 



Two, taken at Revelstoke, B.C., April 23rd, 1890, by Mr. W. 

 Spreadborough. 



5150. Alaskan Pine Grosbeak. 



Pinicola enucleator alascensis Ridgw. 1898. 

 Northwestern North America, including wooded portions of 

 Alaska except Kadiak and the southern coast district, south in 

 winter to Montana and eastern British Columbia. {Ridgway.) 

 A winter visitant to the valley of the Chilliwack River, B.C. ; 

 common winter resident in Cariboo district ; breeds in the timber 

 zone and winters at Okanagan on the mountains. {Brooks) Not 

 rare on Mount Quedst, Gold Range, Shuswap Lake, B.C., alt. 6000 

 feet, August, 1889. {Spreadborough) East and west of Coast 

 Range, except Vancouver Island, also taken at Fort Simpson, 

 B.C., by W. B. Anderson. {Fannin) 



Along the entire west and northwest coast of America from 

 Vancouver Island north to within the Arctic Circle, this bird 

 occurs in greater or less abundance. The only breaks in this range 

 are the treeless areas which occur along the coast of Behring Sea. 

 Throughout the interior of the above region it is an abundant 

 species. {Nelson) This species is a resident of the interior and 

 wooded districts of the entire territory of Alaska. {Turner) 



.Sheep Creek and Homer, Kenai Peninsula, Alaska; at these places 

 nine specimens were taken in July and September, 1901. The 

 patches of cottonwood were the favorite haunts of this bird. They 

 were never found in spruce timber except while perched upon the 

 topmost branch of a dead tree, where they remained but for a few 

 minutes. During heavy Fain storms they repair to the lower 

 underbrush and even the low grass. {Chapman) 



Breeding Notes. — The Alaskan pine grosbeak proved to be a 



-common resident throughout the year in wooded tracts from the 



