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1892; two were seen in a willow thicket in the east end of the 

 Cypress Hills, June 27th, 1894; common from Lesser Slave Lake 

 to Peace River Landing, Lat. 56° 15', in June, 1903; tolerably 

 common at Edmonton, Alta. by April 17th, May ^sth found a nest 

 in a poplar stub about seven feet from the ground, the nest con- 

 tained eight young; common from Edmonton to Athabasca Pass 

 in June, i8g8 ; observed a number on Elbow River and at 

 Crow's Nest Lake, July 31st, 1897; common and breeding in the 

 mountain woods at Banff, Rocky Mountains, in the summer of 

 1891; shot at Revelstoke, B.C., on April 9th, 1890, fairly common 

 during April and May; in June if was common at Deer Park, on 

 the Columbia River; a nest containing four eggs was taken at 

 Robson on June 24th, 1890, it was on an old tree hanging over 

 the water of Pass Creek; observed about a dozen at Penticton, 

 B.C., in April, 1903. {Sfreadborough.) A common "and perman- 

 ent resident around Prince Albert, Sask. (Coubeaux.) Onespeci- 

 ment taken at the Grand Rapids of the Saskatchewan. (Nutting^ 

 Not rare at Athabasca Landing and up the river to Lesser Slave 

 River; common at Fort McMurray, Lat. 56° 40', but rare up the 

 Clearwater River to Methye Portage, seemingly displacing P. 

 hudsonicus; common between Methye Lake and Isle a la Crosse. 

 (y. M. Macoun.) According to the dimensions given, the male 

 bird seen at Carlton House by Richardson belongs to this species. 

 Length 5 J^ inches, length of tail 2§ inches. {Macoun.) North to 

 Fort Simpson on the Mackenzie River. (Ross.) Common through- 

 out the valleys of the interior. {Streator.) I found this bird very 

 common on the wooded hills east of the Coast Range, especially 

 in the neighbourhood of Cornwallis. {Fannin.) Abundant nearly 

 everywhere around Lake Okanagan, B.C., in winter. A common 

 species in winter in. the Cariboo district of British Columbia. 

 {Brooks.) Abounds in the inter-mountainous regions of British 

 Columbia up to 3,000 feet. {Rhoads.) 



Throughout the wooded region of Alaska, from the moist 

 heavily-wooded coast in the Sitkan and Kadiak regions north 

 throughout the entire Yukon and adjoining country this bird is a 

 common resident. {Nelson.) We took this species at Bennett, 

 June 19th, west shore of Lake Bennett, June 24th, Caribou Cross- 

 ing June 26th, Lake Marsh, July 7th, and Lake Lebarge July isth, 

 but did not notice it again until we reached the lower Yukon, 

 although chickadees were heard several times whose specific 



