668 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA. 



hair, lined with feathers. Eggs seven to eight, white, thickly 

 spotted with reddish-brown. {G.R. White.) 



MUSEUM SPECIMENS. 



One taken at Ottawa, May 15th, 1888, by the writer. 

 One set of six eggs taken at Ottawa in June, 1897, ^"d pre- 

 sented by Mr. Fred Whiteaves. 



721a. Parkman's Wren. 



Tfoglodytes aedon parkmanii (Aud.) Coues. 1872. 

 Occasionally seen at Kamlo6ps, B. C, in June, 1889. 

 R.ather common at Heney, Hammond and Agassiz, along the 

 Fraser River, B.C., in May, 1889, they were around the barns 

 and houses like the house wren; common at Chilliwack, B.C., 

 •in the spring of 1901; first seen on Vancouver Island April 27th, 

 1893; it is a tolerably common summer resident throughout the 

 island, in May the woods everywhere were vocal with its song. 

 ■{Spreadborough.) Rather common in British Columbia. {Lord.) 

 Common summer resident everywhere; breeds. {Streator.) A 

 summer resident east and west of the Coast Range. {Fannin.) 

 Common summer resident at Chilliwack. {Brooks.) I never 

 ■found this wren above the 2,000 feet limit. It is not as abundant 

 or evenly distributed in the interior as coast-wise. {Rhoads.) 



museum specimens. 



Seven; three taken at Agassiz, B.C., May, 1889, two at Port 

 Heney on the Fraser River, B.C., May ist, 1889, two at Victoria, 

 Vancouver Island, May, 1893, all by Mr. W. Spreadborough. 



7216. Western House Wren. 



Troglodytes aedon aztecus Baird. 1864. 

 Observed as far west on the 49th parallel as the confines of the 

 Missouri Coteau. The westernmost specimens, as well as those 

 from the immediate valley of the Red River appear to be typical 

 aedon. On the Red River, in June, the species was breeding very 

 'abundantly in the neighbourhood of the fort and town of Pem- 

 bina. {Coues.) An abundant summer resident in partly wooded 

 localities. Although this bird usually nests in a hollow stump it 

 is not averse to a different situation, provided only that it be a 

 ■a hole, and deep enough and narrow enough to exclude any but 



