504 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA. 



{Osgood.) Tolerably common at Skagway and more so at Haines 

 Mission. At Skagway I took a female and four fresh eggs, May 

 31st. The nest of dried grass, lined with short, white hairs, was 

 sunk in the ground and concealed by dead weeds under a birch 

 only about 30 feet above the water of Lynn Canal. {Bishop.) 



Mr. Rhoads, after discussing the differences between this form 

 and the next, says : — " I think it safe to say that birds indistin- 

 guishable from oregonus breed on the better watered mountains 

 of the interior of British Columbia. The only approach to 

 ihufeldti is found in birds- from the most arid lowlands and 

 most eastern Rockies, but their differences are too slight and 

 fortuitous to warrant a distinction." 



MUSEUM SPECIMENS. 



Eight; two taken at Burrard Inlet, B.C., in April, 1889; four at 

 Huntington, B.C., in September, 1901; two at Victoria, Vancouver 

 Island, in May, 1893; all by Mr. Spreadborough. 



One set of five eggs taken near Victoria, V.I., May, 1890, by 

 Rev. G. Taylor. 



567J. Shufeldt's Junco. 



Junco oreganus shufeldti (Coale) Ridgw. 1901. 

 In company with tvio hyemalis at Edmonton, Alta.,in May, 1897, 

 and in the Rocky Mountains south of Yellowhead Pass, in July, 

 1898 ; apparently accidental in the Rocky Mountains, one taken 

 at Canmore near Banff in May, 1891; very common and breeding 

 in the Columbia River valley from Revelstoke to the Interna- 

 tional Boundary where a large series of birds was taken in 1890 

 and 1902. Common from the Columbia to Vancouver Island. 

 West of the Coast Range it becomes mixed with the Oregon junco 

 and evidently breeds ; very abundant at Penticton, south of 

 Okanagan, B.C., in April, 1903. {Spreadborough.) The junco 

 breeding in the plateau region between the Coast Range and the 

 Rockies and migi^ting south in winter, is evidently separable 

 from the coast form. Specimens referred here were collected tt 

 Ashcroft in June and July, 1889; taken also by Mr. Macfarlane at 

 Stewart's Lake with its nests and five eggs. {Sireator) Abundant 

 at Lake Okanagan, B.C., in winter. {Brooks.) A female was taken 

 at Glacier in the White Pass, June 7th 1899 and another at White 



