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Other nests were observed, but there was nothing specially note- 

 worthy about them. {IV. L. Kelts.) 



MUSEUM SPECIMENS. 



Nineteen; one purchased with the Holman -collection in 1885; 

 two taken at Ottawa in May, 1888, by the writer; two at Ottawa 

 by Dr. F. A. Saunders in May, 1891; one in Algonquin Park, Ont., 

 May 26th, 1900; two at Medicine Hat, Assa., May, 1894 ; four at 

 Banff, Rocky Mountains in May and June, 1891 ; one at Robson 

 on the Columbia River, B.C., June 24th, 1890; three at Kamloops, 

 B.C., in June, 1889; two at Edmonton, Alta., in May, 1897, and one 

 at Peace River Landing, June 19th, 1903, all by Mr. W. Spread- 

 borough. 



A series of seven eggs taken at Ottawa and presented to the 

 museum. 



Family L. MOTACILLID.ffi!. Wagtails. 



CCXXXIV. MOTACILLA Linn^us. 1758. 



694. White Wagtail. 



Motacilla alba Linn. 1758. 



One sent from the southern inspectorate of Greenland in 1849; 

 another obtained by Dr. Walker at Godhavn in August, 1857. 

 {Arct. Man.) Four individuals of this species were seen by 

 Alexander Brown and James Lyell (of the Hudson Bay Company), 

 August 29th, 1883, at Hunting Bay, four miles south of Fort 

 Chimo. These persons described the birds accurately and de- 

 clared they were the two parents and two young of the year. 

 {Packard.) 



695. Swinhoe's Wagtail- 



Motacilla ocularis Swinh. i860.' 

 This bird is of doubtful occurrence in Alaska and is admitted 

 on the capture of a single specimen in " Northwest America " by 

 Capt. Kellett and Lieut. Wood ; I obtained a fine male adult on June 

 23rd, 1 88 1, in Plover Bay, on the east coast of Siberia. {Nelson.) 

 At Attu Island, Alaska, I was looking out of my window on the 

 morning of May 14th, 1881, watching the vessel which was to take 

 me to Unalaska Island enter the harbour; I saw a bird just beneath 



