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at Ottawa; one was shot by Mr. G. R. White, previous to 1881 

 {^Ottawa Naturalist, Vol. V.) The only specimens I know to have 

 been taken near Toronto are those by my friend Mr. C. W. Nash 

 and by Mr. Oliver Spencer. (/. Hughes-Samuel!) A not uncom- 

 mon summer resident of Ontario, west and south from London. 

 ( W. E. Saunders.) 



MUSEUM SPECIMENS. 



One purchased with the Holman collection in 1885. 



One set of five eggs taken June ist, 1891, two miles west of 

 London, Ont., by Mr. W. E. Saundefs. Nest of vegetable fibre 

 and well covered with lichens, placed on a horizontal branch of a 

 cherry tree two feet from the ground. 



Family LV. TURDID.3E. Thrushes, Solitaires, &c. 



CCLV. MYADESTES Swainson. 



754. Townsend's Solitaire. 



Myadestes townsendii (Aud.) Cab. 1847. 



Observed at the Elbow River near Calgary, June 21st, 1897, 

 common in the Rocky Mountains south to Crow's Nest Pass in 

 July, 1897 ; a common species at Banff, breeding on mountains 

 high up; seen everywhere in the mountains around the Athabasca 

 Pass, 1898; quite common at Revelstoke, B.C., from the i6th to the 

 20th April, 1890; they sat around on stumps and caught flies or 

 flew ddwn at anything they might see; in June they were seen at 

 Deer Park, Arrow Lake, at an elevation of 2,000 feet, and doubtless 

 breeding; observed on nearly all the mountains on the Interna- 

 tional Boundary in British Columbia; one seen on Deer Ridge, 

 south slope of Mount Cheam, B.C., August loth, 1901; two seen 

 near the summit of Mount Benson, Nanaimo, Vancouver Island, 

 July loth, 1893, the birds had a nest in the side of the bank close 

 to the rocky summit; only seen in the Okanagan valley, B.C. in 

 the early part of April,, 1903; all disappeared about the 15th; heard 

 singing everywhere in the woods at Elko, B.C. from the snow 

 to the level of the railway. May, 1904. {Spreadbo rough) 



Very rare, only shot once in the Columbia valley. {Lord.) A 

 rare bird though I have taken it both east and west of the Coast 

 Range, and have taken it at Ladners, in the lower Eraser valley, 

 in January. {Fannin.) Rare migrant in the valley at Chilliwack; 



