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Five specimens taken at New Westminster and one taken at 

 Mount. Lehman on September 15th are typical of the coast form. 

 {Streator.) Chiefly west of the Coast Range; a very abundant 

 summer resident on the coast. {Fannin.) More common than 

 the type; a summer resident. {Brooks.) A very abundant sum- 

 mer resident on the Pacific slope of British Columbia. {Rhoads.) 

 Rather rare on Queen Charlotte Islands, seen twice at Cumshewa 

 Inlet. Three specimens taken at Fort Kenai, Alaska, by Bischoff 

 in May, 1869. {Osgood.) Common at Haines Mission, Lynn 

 Canal, June ist, 1899. {Bishop.) Extending up the Pacific coast 

 this bird is found as a common summer resident of the wooded 

 southeastern shore of Alaska, where it replaces celata. {Nelson.) 

 Tolerably common about clearings, and in the low growths of firs 

 which border the beaches at the mouths of the streams at Sitka, 

 Alaska. {Grinnell.) Four specimens taken at Sheep Creek, and 

 four on Kenai Mountains, Alaska, in August, 1901. The species 

 was fairly common along all streams in the timber belt even to 

 its highest limits where it breeds. {Chapman.) 



Breeding Notes. — Banff, Rocky Mountains, June loth, 1893, 

 in the valley of the Bow River, we flushed a little warbler off its 

 nest and five eggs. This nest was built on the ground amongst, 

 short herbage growing at the side of a fallen log. As I wished to 

 secure the parent bird to prove the identity of the eggs we did 

 not molest the nest. Next morning my collector brought me a 

 female oraiige-crowned warbler he had caught with his hand on 

 the nest we found the day previous, so I took my camera along 

 and photographed the nest and the photo-engraving of this nest 

 is to be seen in Oliver Davies' " Nests and Eggs of North 

 American Birds," page 431. {W. Rai?ie.) 



MUSEUM SPECIMENS. 



Twenty-three; one taken at Agassiz, B.C., in May, 1889, another 

 at Westminster Junction and another at Hastings, Burrard Inlet, 

 in April, 1889; nine taken at Victoria, Vancouver Island, in May, 

 1887 and 1893; three at Edmonton, Alta., June, 1897; O"*^ ^t Can- 

 more, Rocliy Mountains, May 25th, 1891; three at Banff, Rocky 

 Mountains, May, 1891, and four at Penticton, B.C., April, 1903; 

 all by Mr. W. Spreadborough. 



