698 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA., 



common at Huntington, B.C., on the International Boundary in 

 September of the same year; a common resident on Vancouver 

 Island. {Spreadborough.) Very plentiful on Vancouver Island 

 and in British Columbia. (Lord.) Very common spring and 

 fall migrant ; a few remain to breed. {Streator.) Abundant 

 throughout the district west of the Cascades. {Fannin.) Common 

 winter resident, breeds on the mountains ; common through- 

 out the winter at Lake Okanagan, B.C.; a few of these deli- 

 cate little birds remained in Cariboo district, B.C. throughout the 

 coldest weather. {Brooks.) I find no colour difference between 

 the east and west of the Coa^t Range. {Rhoads.) Common on 

 Queen Charlotte Islands, B.C.; an adult male was taken at Cum- 

 shewa Inlet, June 20th, 1899. Moderately common at Cook's 

 Inlet, Alaska. {Osgood.) Tolerably common at Glacier above 

 Skagway, Alaska; often heard but seldom seen and hard to pro- 

 cure; a female that I took on June loth had the last egg ready 

 for the shell. {Bishop) A male and female were taken at Homer, 

 Kenai Peninsula, Alaska, September 26th, 1901, and a male at 

 Sheep Creek, on August i8th. {Chapman) The Alaska records 

 of this species are limited to the southeastern coast where it has 

 been obtained at Sitka and Kadiak. {Nelson) Common every- 

 where, particularly in the dense fir thickets along streams at 

 Sitka, Alaska. On June 22nd, I observed the first young. 

 {Grinnell.) 



MUSEUM SPECIMENS. 



Four; two taken at Huntington, B.C., in September, 1901, and 

 two at Victoria, Vancouver Island, April, 1893, by Mr. W. Spread- 

 borough. 



749. Ruby-crowned Kinglet. 



ReguLus calendula (Linn.) Light. 1823. 

 One sent from Nenortalik, Greenland, in 1859. {Arct. Man.) 

 Common in the southern portions of Labrador; Coues obtained 

 a specimen in August at Rigolet; and Stearns shot a single 

 specimen at Old' Fort Island, October nth, 1881. {Packard) 

 Common at Moose Factory, June 9th, 1896. Observed at Fort 

 George, June 20th. Common at Richmond Gulf, July ist. None 

 seen inland. {Spreadborough) Common at Baddeck, Cape Breton 

 Island. {F. H. Allen) Uncommon at Halifax, N.S. {Downs) 



