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690 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA. 



738. Mountain Chickadee. 



Parus gambeli Ridgw. 1886. 

 A common summer resident at Banff, Rocky Mountains in 1891 ; 

 tlireeshot on the mountains at Deer Park, Columbia River, B.C.; 

 observed two on a mountain north of the Little Miette River, 

 Athabasca Pass, Rocky Mountains, 1898 ; a common summer 

 resident at Robson, B.C.; young full-grown and fledged by June 

 26th, 1890; abundant at Spence's Bridge, B. C, in May, 1889; 

 common on Sophie Mountain at 4,400 feet altitude, on the Inter- 

 national Boundary, B.C., in 1902; observed about a dozen at 

 Penticton, B.C., in April, 1903 ; common at Elko, B.C., in 

 May, 1904, a pair building a nest in a hole in a live larch 

 about 14 feet from the ground. May 9th, 1904. {Spreadborough.) 

 British Columbia. [Lord^ Abundant about the mountains of the 

 interior; breeds. {Streator.) Wooded hills east of Coast Range 

 and in Rocky Mountain district. {Fannin.) I never secured this 

 species but am confident I saw it on the Coast Range, B.C.; 

 rather common around Lake Okanagan, B.C., in winter; observed 

 occasionally at Quesnel, in the Cariboo district of B.C., in 

 winter. {Brooks.) Found in the interior mountains of British 

 Columbia, but not in the Rockies. {Rhoads.) Rather comm n in 

 spring at Golden, on the Columbia River; also in the Selkirk 

 Mountains, B.C. (E. F. G. White.) 



MUSEUM SPECIMENS. 



Seventeen; five taken at Banff, Rocky Mountains in May, 1891; 

 one at Deer Park, and another at Robson, Columbia River, B.C., 

 June, 1890; one at Griffin Lake, B.C., August 6th, 1889 ; three at 

 Spence's Bridge, B.C., June, 1885; one at Cascade, July 15th, 1902; 

 two others at Penticton, B.C., April, 1903, and three at Elko, 

 B.C., May, 1904; all by Mr. W. Spreadborough. 



739. Siberian Chickaiee. 



Parus ci?ictus obtectus (Cab.) Ridgw. 1885. 

 On June 1st, 1864, a nest of this species containing seven eggs 

 was found near Fort Anderson in a hole in a spruce stump at a 

 height of six feet from the ground. This was the first discovery 

 of the nest of this bird on the American continent. It was composed 

 of a moderate quantity of hare or rabbit fur, intermixed with a 



