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nicott at Fort Yukon, Alaska, in 1861 ; and of a nest and 

 egg found the same season in a pine (spruce) tree on 

 Anderson River, in about latitude 68° north. Both are now 

 in the Smithsonian Institution at Washington." Several 

 skins were obtained at Fort Anderson in 1862, -but the 

 most diligent search failed to secure any more nests or eggs. 

 Chief Trader B. R. Ross states that Mr. John Hope, a 

 schoolmaster of the Church Missionary Society resident at 

 Fort Franklin on Great Bear Lake, informed him that these 

 birds breed in numbers in that vicinity, but so high up the 

 trees as to render it a difficult task to obtain the eggs. A 

 specimen was shot in February at Fort Liard, which caused 

 him to mark the species as a winter resident. Sir John 

 Richardson's remarks are also worthy of reproduction among 

 these notes : " This elegant bird has only lately been 

 detected in America, having been discovered in the spring 

 of 1826, near the sources of the Athabasca River, by Mr. 

 Drummond, and by myself the same season at Great Bear 

 Lake, in latitude 65° north. It appears there in great flocks 

 about 24th May, when it feeds on the berries of the alpine 

 arbutus and marsh vaccinium. It stays only a few days. 

 ISTone of the Indians knew where it nests, but I have reason 

 to believe that it is in the mountain limestone districts, in 

 latitude 67° or 68° north." The nest is usually composed 

 of fine twigs, roots and grasses, lined with finer material, 

 and it is built in spruce and other trees. The eggs measure 

 about 0.94 by 0.68 inch and up to 1.10 by 0.70 inches. They 

 are noticeably larger than those of the cedar bird, but are of 

 the same ground colour and sparingly spotted with round 

 dark spots. There are ten specimens, but no eggs, in the 

 Ottawa Museum ! Three of these were taken by Professor 

 Macoun at Oanmore, Rocky Mountains, in June, 1885. 



619. Cedae Waxwing — Ampelis cedrorum (Viell.). 



A nest built on a Douglas pine tree, at a height of about 

 ten feet from the ground, was found by Mr. Charles Ogden 

 at Fort George, Fraser River, New Caledonia, on 5th June, 



