CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS. 50$ 



Pass City, Junegth; others were taken and heard next day both 

 at Glacier and White Pass City. (Bishop?) 



• Breeding Notes. — On May 31st, 1902, found two nests near 

 Trail, B.C.; one with four eggs the other with two; incubation was 

 far advanced. Nests constructed of weeds and grass, lined with 

 hair. Both nests were in a bank overhung with grass ; another 

 was found on May 25th in the bank of an old prospect hole with 

 four fresh eggs.. {Spreadborough.) 



MUSEUM SPECIMENS. 



Twenty-nine ; two taken at Edmonton, Alta., in May, 1897; one 

 at Canmore, Alta., May 29th, 1891 ; five at Revelstoke, B.C., in May, 

 1890; two at Deer Park, B.C., June, 1890; five at Trail, B.C., June, 

 1902; one at Spence's Bridge, B.C., June 3rd, iSSg.; five at Pentic- 

 ton, B.C., in April, 1903; one at Agassiz, B.C., May 21st, 1889; one 

 at Hastings, Burrard Inlet, April 17th, 1889; three at Chilliwack, 

 B.C., June, 1901; one at Huntington, B.C., September, 24th, 1901, 

 and two at Victoria, Vancouver Island, May, 1893; one set of four 

 eggs taken at Trail, B.C , May 2Sth, 1902. All the above taken 

 by Mr. Spreadborough. 



-5671. Montana Junco. 



Junco montanus Ridgway. 1898. 



This form accompanies hyemalis in the migration at Carberry, 

 Manitoba. {Thompson-Seton.) Mr. Thompson-Seton refers this 

 bird to shufeldti, but having taken montanus at Medicine Hat in 

 1894, and found them breeding in June on the east end of the 

 Cypress Hills about 100 miles southeast of that point, we place his 

 reference under that species. {Macoun)' Qmte. common at Banff, 

 Rocky Mountains in the summer of 1891 ; nests were takjn on 

 Tunnel Mountain. They were always placed on the ground 

 beneath a bush or on a slope. Breeds twice in a season at Banff. 

 {Spreadborough. ) 



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

 were collected orj Tunnel Mountain, at Banff, June 25th, 1893. 

 Nest, on the ground amongst loose stones, composed of dried 

 grass stems lined with hair. {W. Raine.) 



