CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS. 621 



MUSEUM SPECIMENS. 



Twelve ; one purchased with the Holman collection in 1885 ; 

 two taken at Ottawa by the writer in May, 1888, also two others 

 by Dr. F.A. Saunders in May, 1890 ; one taken at Toronto, Ont., 

 by Mr. S. Herring; two at London, Ont., by Mr. W. E.Saunders; 

 one taken in Algonquin Park, Ont., May 2gth, igoo, one at 

 Medicine Hat, Assa., on May i8th, 1894 and two at Edmonton, 

 Alta., May, 1897, all by Mr. W. Spreadborough. 



Two sets of eggs; one set of four eggs taken at Wolfville, N.S., 

 June 17th, 1896, by Mr. H. F. Tufts; nest in a small fir tree four 

 feet from the ground, composed of fine twigs and grasses lined 

 with hair; another of fpur eggs taken at Halifax, N.S., June isth, 

 1890, by Col. James T. Egan. 



668. Townsend's Warbler. 



Dendroica townsendi (Towns.) Baird. 1858. 

 A few individuals seen at Revelstoke, B.C., in May, 1890, and 

 -a male shot on the 23rd. One taken at Huntington, on the Inter- 

 national Boundary, in September, 1902, the only one seen; first 

 seen on Vancouver Island, April 19th, 1893; shortly after they 

 began to nest in the Douglas firs near Victoria. A common 

 summer resident on the island. {Spreadborough^ British Colum- 

 bia. {Lord) A single specimen was collected at Mount Lehman 

 in September. {Streator.) East and west of Coast Range ; not 

 common. {Fannin.) Migratory at Chilliwack; scarce. {Brooks.) 

 Abundant on Vancouver Island, but rare east of the Coast Range. 

 {Rhoads.) One specimen seen at English Bay near Vancouver, B.C., 

 August 8th, 1894. {E. F. G. White) One taken ^t Cumshewa Inlet, 

 Queen Charlotte Islands, June I5tn and five others at Skidegate, 

 July 14th; Mr. Keen found it at Massett and noted its spring 

 arrival from 1891 to 1898. {Osgood) A single adult female taken at 

 Sitka, Alaska, August 14th, and two others seen at the same time. 

 {Grinnell) Hartlaub states that this species was once seen by Dr. 

 Krause on May 27th, in conifers of upper Dejah valley, Alaska, 

 which is probably the most northern point from which it has yet 

 been recorded. {Nelson.) Osgood took a male at Skagway, May 

 31st. It was tolerably common at Glacier in the dense woods of 

 spruce and fir, and unquestionably nesting. Altogether we noted 

 about twenty individuals during our stay. Osgood took an adult 



