CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS. 685 



.Assa., May, 21, 1894, one at Edmonton, Alta., April 29, 1897, three 

 at Banff, Rocky Mountains in June, 1891, one at Revelstoke, B.C., 

 April 25, 1890, two at Deer Park, Columbia River, B.C., June,i890, 

 one at Penticton, B.C., April, 8, 1903, oiie at Spence's Bridge, B.C., 

 June 3, 1889, one at Chilliwack, B.C., June 8, 1901, and two at 

 Victoria, Vancouver Island, in May, 1893, all by Mr. W. Spread- 

 Jborough. 



One set of five eggs taken near Wolfville, N.S., by Mr. Harold 

 Tufts, May 23, 1901; nest in a hole in a dead birch stump about 

 ten feet from the ground, composed of fine rootlets and grass. 



730. Pygmy Nuthatch. 



Sittapygmaa ViG. 1839. 

 British Columbia. {Lord.) Found only at Ducks where it was 

 as common as the others. {Streator.) I have only found this bird 

 east of the Coast Range. {Fannin.) Rather common at Lak6 

 Okanagan, B.C. in winter. Confined to the regions of Pinus 

 ponderosa in B.C., in summer. {Brooks.) Only found and that 

 sparingly at Vernon near Lake Okanagan, B.C. {Rhoads!) Com- 

 mon on the hill-sides in the scattered timber at Penticton, Lake 

 Okanagan, B.C. It builds its nest in holes in trees anywhere from 

 •6 to 40 feet from the ground ; they have a remarkable way of 

 caulking up the holes and seams in the tree around their nest 

 with hair. They sometimes work 10 or 12 days making the nest; 

 •on April 15th, 1903, found a pair building their nest; chopped the 

 same out May ist and found six eggs;' the bird covered them with 

 ieathers on leaving the nest so I suppose she had not finished 

 laying. {Spreadborough.) 



MUSEUM SPECIMENS. 



Seven specimens taken at Penticton, B.C., in April, 1903, by Mr. 

 W. Spreadborough. 



CCL. PARUS Linnaeus. 1758. 



•^35. Chickadee. 



Parus atricapillus 'L.Y^^. 1766. 

 Locally common in timbered parts of northeastern Labrador. 

 ■{Bigelow.) I am informed by crejlible persons long resident in 



