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the spring of 1826 near the sources of the Athabasca River by Mr. 

 Drummond, and by myself the same season at Great Bear Lake, in 

 Lat. 65°; it appears in great flocks at Great Bear Lake about the 

 24th May, when it feeds on the berries of the alpine arbutus and 

 marsh vaccinium ; it stays only a few days ; none of the Indians 

 knew where it nests, but I have reason to believe that it is in the 

 mountain limestone districts in Lat. 67° or 68°. {Richardson.) I 

 have been informed by Mr. John Hope, a resident at Fort Frank- 

 lin on Great Bear Lake that these birds build in numbers in the 

 vicinity; but so high up on the trees that the eggs are very diffi- 

 cult to obtain ; a specimen was shot at Fort Liard in February 

 which leads me to believe that it is a winter resident. (Ross.) 

 An egg and nest of this bird were found in a pine, tree on the 

 Anderson River in 1861 in about Lat. 68°. Several skins were 

 obtained at Fort Anderson in 1862, but the most careful search 

 failed to produce any nests. (Mac/ar/ane.) Shot only east of the 

 Coast Range. (Lord.) A resident chiefly east of Coast Rartge 

 and Rocky Mountain district ; a rare winter visitor on Vancouver 

 Island. {Fannin.) Abundant in some winters in Chilliwack and 

 entirely absent in others ; abundant at Lake Okanagan, B.C. in 

 the winter of 1897-98, but less so the next winter; bi-eeds. (Brooks.) 

 Saw numbers of large flocks up the Columbia from Golden, B.C., 

 December, I7thv 1899 i ^'^'-^ numbers up the Nicola, February 23rd, 

 1898. (E. F. G. White.) 



On August 20th, 1899, the day we arrived at our winter camp 

 on the kowak, Cook's Inlet, Alaska, I saw a flock of 50 wax- 

 wings in a bunch of spruce trees, but none afterwards. (Grinnell.) 

 There is no record of this bird's occurrence anywhere along the 

 shores of Behring Sea on the arctic ; in the interior, however, it 

 is rather common, and specimens were brought to me from Nulato 

 and Fort Reliance on the Yukon ; the only examples we. have 

 (from Alaska) of the waxwing's nest and eggs were taken by 

 Kennicott at Fort Reliance, Yukon, on 4th July, 1861. (Nelson.) 

 This bird is only an occasional visitor to the coast ; specimens 

 were obtained from Nulato and Fort Yukon. (Turner.) We saw 

 several on Six-mile River, July 1st; two at Lake Marsh, July 7th ; 

 one on Fifty-mile River, July loth; two pairs at Miles Cafion, July 

 nth; and later they were seen in pairs and families at many points 

 on the Yukon to near Circle City; the last were seen August 12th;: 



