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the birds that we collected had been feeding on the purple berries 

 of some unidentified plant. (Bishops 



The plant referred to above was likely the bog blueberry {Vac- 

 cinium uliginosuni) which was abundant on mossy slopes and 

 sphagnum flats between Dawson and Selkirk. Berries ripe at 

 Dawson, Lat. 64" 15', July loth, 1902. (Macoun.) 



Breeding Notes. — Breeding from 158-Milc House northward; 

 I arrived at Quesnel too late for eggs, but kept a sharp lookout 

 for waxwings the following spring at 158-Mile House; I first 

 noticed them there on nth June, when I came across a small 

 flock and shot one which proved on dissection to be a female 

 about to lay. On returning to the same spot I found the wax- 

 wings, consisting of a colony of five pairs of birds, still there, and 

 soon discovered a nest in a Murray pine, near the end of a limb 

 and about 25 feet up; this then (12th June) contained two eggs ; 

 on the 15th I took this set, which then consisted of four eggs ; 

 the nest was loose and bulky, composed of Usnea moss, dry grass 

 and weed stems, and lined with fine material, with a few green 

 aspen leaves in the lining, no doubt to render the egg's less con- 

 spicuous; on the 26th June I carefully looked over all the trees in 

 the neighbourhood with my binocular, and found three more 

 nests, all in tall Douglas fir trees; two of these I was able to climb 

 to; each contained four eggs within a few days of hatching ; the 

 nests were similar to the first but without the green aspen leaves, 

 probably due to the fact that the nests were better concealed 

 from above; I was unable to reach the fourth nest, nor could I 

 find that of the remaining pair of birds. {Brooks.) Early in June, 

 1893, I saw and heard this bird chattering in the woods on the 

 slopes of Squaw Mountain at |Banff in the Rockies; my guide 

 informed me he had several times seen its nest late in July ; I 

 offered him a good price for a set of eggs and sure enough he 

 succeeded in finding a nest and four eggs on July 30th, 1893; this 

 nest is composed of fine twigs, roots and grass and was built 20 

 feet up in a spruce tree; on July 13th, 1894, he found a nest and 

 five eggs, also built in a spruce tree top, while on July 22nd, 1897, 

 he found another nest and four eggs, again built in the top of a 

 low spruce tree, and secured one of the birds. {W. Raiiie.) 



MUSEUM SPECIMENS. 



Ten specimens; three taken at Canmore, Rocky Mountains in 

 June, 1885, by Prof. Macoun; four taken at Banff, Rocky Moun- 

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