572 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA. 



Common at Ashcroft and abundant at Ducks. {Streator.) The 

 most abundant vireo both east and west of the Coast Range in 

 B.C. {Brooks.) East of the Coast Range this species is. com- 

 monly distributed, and a few were found at Lake La Hache, 

 B.C. {Rhoads.) 



BREEDiisfG Notes. — A nest taken by me was a neat cup sus- 

 pended by the brim in the embrace of a forked twig. It was 

 built of strips of. bark, pine needles, pieces of wasp's nests and 

 paper. Apparently agglutinated with the saliva of the bird, and 

 lined vvith grass. Eggs 3 to 5, pure white, marked with fine dark 

 reddish-brown spots toward the larger end. {G. R. White.) This 

 species lays two or three eggs during June in its swinging nest 

 which is generally placed in a sapling maple.. A few nests have 

 been found in conifers. {W. H. Moore) This species builds a 

 suspended nest, cup-shaped, the brim attached to a spiall hori- 

 zontal fork at the end of a branch, from two to thirty feet from 

 the ground, The nest is made of strips of thin flexible bark, 

 the outside ornamented with the white bark of the birch, and the 

 inside lined with hair-like roots, fine leaves or very small twigs. 

 Nesting season in June. Three or four eggs are laid. Nests 

 taken at Ottawa and at Lake Nominingue 100 miles north of 

 1 1 aw a . ( Garneau . ) 



museum specimens. 



Seventeen; one purchased with the Holman collection in 1885; 

 five taken at Ottawa by Prof. Macoun; two taken at Ottawa by 

 Dr. F. A. Saunders in August, 1890; one taken at London, Ont., on 

 May 12th, 1885, by Mr. W. E. Saunders; one taken at Banff, 

 Rocky Mountains, June l8th, 1891, two at Edmonton, Alta., May 

 2ist, 1897, one at Robson, B.C., June 20th, 1890, two at Trail, B.C., 

 June, 1902, one at Kamloops, B.C., June 19th, 1889, and one at 

 Chilliwack, B.C., May 2nd, 1901, all by Mr. W. Spreadborough. 



Three sets of eggs; one of four eggs, taken at Edmonton, Alta., 

 June 3rd, 1897. one of four eggs at Trail, B.C., June 12th, 1902, 

 both by Mr. W. Spreadborough; one of three eggs at Robson, 

 B.C., June 24th, 1890, by Prof. Macoun. 



625. Yellow-Green Vireo. 



Vireo flavoviridis (Cass.) Baird. 1858. 

 One specimen of this species was taken at Godbout in May 

 1883, by Mr. Comeau. (Dionne) 



