CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS. 5O3 , 



a well-concealed nest placed on the ground, under the protection 

 of a rock, sod, root or log. The nest is composed of grass stems 

 lined with hair. One nest was found made entirely of hair taken 

 from a piece of cariboo skin. {W. If. .Moore.) One nest found on 

 Chelsea Mountain, nine miles from Ottawa, on May 12th, 1903, 

 and another taken on Montreal Mountain on June 3rd, 1903, were 

 in holes in the ground; each nest was made of grass and hair and 

 each contained four eggs, and measured 4x2 and 2*50 x rjo 

 inches. (Garneau.) Not a commqn summer resident at Ottawa. 

 Nest in a low bush or on the ground, composed of strips of bark, 

 rootlets and hairs, lined with moss and hair; eggs 4 or 5, greenish- 

 white, spotted and blotched with reddish-brown. {G. R. White.) 



MUSEUM SPECIMENS. 



Sixteen; three taken at Ottawa, April, 1888, by Prof. Macoun; 

 two at Toronto in 1890, by Mr. S. Herring; two at Ottawa, in 

 April and September, 1891, by Mr. F. A. Saunders; one at 

 London, Ont., April 12th, 1886, by Mr. W. E. Saunders; four at 

 Indian Head, Assa., April, 1892, and three at Edmonton, Alta., 

 April, 1897, by Mr. Spreadborough. 



One set of three eggs taken at Ottawa, May, 1894. 



56Ya. Oregon Junco. 



Junco oregonus {ToifJ^s.) Ridgw. 1901. 

 An abundant resident west of the Coast Range. {Fatmin.) 

 Abundant resident at Chilliwack, B.C. (Brooks.) Very abun- 

 dant in the Eraser valley below Yale in May, 1889; common 

 during the whole summer at Chilliwack and at Huntington, B.C., 

 on the International Boundary. An abundant summer resident 

 at Victoria, Vancouver Island; nesting by April 9th, 1893. 

 Doubtless common over the whole island as it was seen at Sooke, 

 Comox and Nanaimo. (Spreadborough^ The occurrence of this 

 bird in Alaska was first, made known by the capture of eight 

 specimens at Sitka by Bischoff ; it was afterwards taken by Bean 

 at Sitka. (Nelson.) A single specimen of this bird was obtained 

 at Unalaska Island April 8th, 1879, where it was shot by a native. 

 (Turner.) Numerous in open bushy places at Sitka, Alaska. This 

 junco was one of the commonest land birds there. (Grinnell.) 

 Not common on Queen Charlotte Islands. It was very seldom 

 seen near the coast and but few were noticed on the mountains. 



