

CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS. 565 



Columbia. {Lord.) Seen only on Vancouver Island where two 

 immature females were taken in September, 1899. {Streator.) 

 The province at large; nowhere common; a few are found 

 throughout the winter on the coast. {Fannin.) Common winter 

 visitant at Chilliwack. Tolerably common at Lake Okanagan, 

 B.C., in winter. {Brooks) 



The only specimen of this bird from southeastern Alaska was 

 obtained at Fort Kenai, Cook's Inlet, 19th May, 1869 ; over the 

 entire portion of the territory from Behring Sea, east to the British 

 boundary, and north to the Alaskan Mountains, it is a resident, 

 rather common some places but nowhere abundant. {Nelson.) 

 This species is found throughout the Yukon district ; it is a resid- 

 ent, breeding wherever found in summer. {Turner.) 



An immature bird in the brown plumage was shot at Hope, 

 Cook's Inlet, Alaska, September, 1900; several others were seen 

 at Homer. {Osgood.) During the fall of 1899, this biVd {invictus) 

 was met with in th'e Kowak valley. Cook's Inlet, Alaska. {Grinnell.) 

 Two specimens were taken at Homer on September 15th, 1901. 

 Several shrikes were seen on Kenai Mountains, Alaska, just above 

 the edge of the timber line. They were found in pairs during 

 the entire summer and no doubt breed there. {Chapman.) 



Breeding Notes. — I have only met with this shrike nesting at 

 Toronto once. I to6k a nest on May 28th, 1887; it contained five 

 eggs and was situated quite conspicuously on the horizontal 

 branch of a maple near the end and about 15 feet from the ground. 

 The nest was bulky, the outside of sticks and strings with a few 

 bright labels from meat tins worked in ; the lining was of cow 

 hair and felt; the nest was much larger than the white-rumped 

 shrike builds. (/. H. Fleming.) At Ottawa I have taken its nest 

 in a low cedar tree. The nest was composed of sticks, strips of bark, 

 grass and some soft vegetable matter, lined with grass. Eggs 4, 

 greenish-gray, very thickly spotted with reddish-brown and 

 purplish. {G. R. White.) I met with these birds breeding some 

 years ago near the St. Lawrence River. This was in a large 

 rough field where thorn bushes had grown up among some half- 

 grown elms. On turning to my notes written at the time, I find 

 the nest I met with was nearly finished on the 17th April when 

 there was still a great deal of ice in the river and snow in places 

 two feet deep. It was about six feet from the ground and built 



