CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS. 6/3 



Moose Mountain, southwest of Calgary, June 30th, 1897, another 

 observed in Crow's Nest Pass, July 28th, 1897; first seen at Revel- 

 'Stoke, on the Columbia, April loth, 1890-, later they became more 

 <;ommon and nested in the thick woods; quite common in thick 

 woods at Trail on the 49th parallel in the summer of 1902; three 

 specimens seen at Penticton, B.C., in April, 1903; common in the 

 woods around Burrard Inlet and Agassiz, on the Fraser River, 

 B.C., April, 1889; abundant along the Chilliwack River,-in the 

 mountains near the 49th parallel; also observed a few at Hunting- 

 iton, B.C., nearer the coast in 1901; a common resident through- 

 out Vancouver Island, preferring thick bush. {Spreadborough.) 

 Rather common, British Columbia. {Lord.) Confined principally 

 to the coast region; breeds. {Sireator.) A resident chiefly of the 

 coast; abundant. {Fannin.) Common resident at Chilliwack. 

 Tolerably common throughout the winter at Lake Okanagan, B.C. 

 J{Brooks.) Abundant on the coast of British Columbia. Two 

 ■moulting birds from Selkirk Mountains near Nelson, B.C., are 

 -even darker than skins from Puget Sound. {Rhoads.) From Sitka, 

 Bischoff sent four specimens during his collecting there, and 

 others have been collected at Kadiak. {Nelson.) Tolerably 

 ■common in the more open forests at Sitka, Alaska, where there is 

 much recently fallen timber. Especially numerous on St. Lazaria 

 Island where their clear sprightly songs constantly uttered, 

 seemed scarcely in accord with the harsh cries of the thousands of 

 sea-fowl. (Gfinnell.) We noticed a few at Glacier above Skag- 

 way, Alaska, June 4th to loth, and I took a male there June 6th. 

 {Bishop.) Very common on all the Queen Charlotte Islands, it is 

 practically the only bird to be found in the deep forest away from 

 the sea-shore. On the occasions when we attempted to penetrate 

 the labyrinth of undergrowth towards the interior of the islands, 

 we were always greeted, even in the darkest places, by the tiny 

 wren's bright bubbling song or scolding chatter. It is always in 

 motion and utterly regardless of the weather. During continuous 

 rains while we were camped at the head of Cumshewa Inlet, a wren 

 would appear every few hours near the front of the tent and, after 

 scolding us for a while, move on through the wet brush cheerfully 

 and oblivious of the descending rain. I flushed a bird from an 

 empty nest in the upturned roots of a large fallen cedar, June 15th. 

 I visited this nest frequently and flushed the bird from it each 

 ■time, but up to June 28th it still contained no eggs. Four speci- 

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