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Ottawa, but more frequently in Montreal in June, also at Lake 

 Nominingue, lOO miles north of Ottawa, in July. Nest in a fork 

 in a bush two or three feet from the ground, made of dried leaves 

 and lined with fine grass or hairs. Eggs in the set three or four 

 of a pale blue colour. {Garneau.) 



MUSEUM SPECIMENS. 



Three; taken at Ottawa in May, 1888, by Prof. Macoun. 



Two sets of four eggs each, both taken by Mr. W. Raine, one 

 at Toronto, June ist, 1889, and one at Stratford, Ont., May 

 29th, 1890. 



> 599 . Lazuli Bupting. 



Cyanospiza amcena (Say) Baird. 1858. 

 This species was found in the Bow valley from the foothills at 

 Morley up to Banff in the Rocky Mountains, but although often 

 seen was not common in the summer of 1891; common at Trail on 

 the Columbia and at Cascade in low bushes on the hillsides in 

 June and July, 1902; found at Kamloops and Spence's Bridge, B. 

 C. in abundance in June, 1889; two pairs were seen at Agassiz on 

 May 13th, the same year, one specimen seen at Chilliwack, B.C., 

 May 23rd, 1901; shot a female at Comox, Vancouver Island, June 

 23rcl, 1893, the only one seen; one seen at lake near Victoria, 

 Vancouver Island, May isfh, 1887. (Spreadborough.) This beauti- 

 ful bird is abundant between the Coast Range and the Rockies, 

 but does not extend further north than Bonaparte River which is 

 north of Ashcroft in British Columbia. {Rhoads.) 



MUSEUM SPECIMENS. 



Nine; four taken at Trail, B.C., May and June, 1902, three at 

 Spence's Bridge, B.C., May, 1889, one at Kamloops, B.C., June 

 23rd, 1889, and one at Comox, Vancouver Island, June 23rd, 1893, 

 all by Mr. Spreadborough. 



CCXII. SPIZA Bonaparte. 1824. 



-- 604. Dickcissel. 



Spiza americana (Gmel.) Ridgw. 1880. 

 Since the irruption of this species into eastern and central 

 Ontario in 1891;, recorded in the Ottawa Naturalist^ of that year 



