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usual number found in them. Fairly numerous in that 

 region. On Mr. Ross's List. The colour of the eggs is 

 greenish-white, spotted and blotched with reddish brown. 

 There are sixteen Ottawa Museum specimens, and but one 

 set of three eggs, taken near that city, in May, 1894! 



567. OEEGOisr Junco — Junco hyemalis oregonus (Towns.). 



Early in June, 1880, a nest containing four eggs was 

 found on the ground near Fort Rae, Great Slave Lake. The 

 parent was snared, and the specimens were forwarded to Mr. 

 Dalgleish, who identified her as being an Oregon junco. In 

 composition the nest was similar to that of the preceding 

 junco. Mr. Eoss states that it extends to Fort Simpson, 

 Mackenzie River, where it is rare. Present in New Cale- 

 donia. One nest with two eggs was found by Mr. C. Ogden, 

 at Fort George, 10th June, 1889. 



Nelson states that the occurrence of this sub-species in 

 Alaska was first made known by the capture of eight speci- 

 mens by Bischoff at Sitka, and one later by Bean at 

 Unalaska, in 1879. Said to be abundant in British Colum- 

 bia. Bishop mentions having taken a female and four fresh 

 eggs at Skagway on 31st May. The nest, composed of 

 dry grass lined with short white hairs, was sunk in the 

 ground and concealed by dead weeds xmder a birch, only 

 about thirty feet above the water of Lynn Canal. 



The Dominion Museum at Ottawa has eight skin speci- 

 mens and but one set of five eggs, taken near Victoria, Van- 

 couver Island, in May, 1890, by the Rev. G. Taylor! 



567b. Shtjfeldt's Junco — Junco hyemalis shufeldti 

 (Coale). 



On the 16th of May, 1889, a nest holding but two eggs 

 was discovered under a fallen tree stump, not very far from 

 Fort St. James. Eggs rather fresh. The parents were 

 seen, and both of them were shot close by. Four weeks 

 later another nest, with five eggs, was found on a low bush. 



