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There are no eggs, but twenty-three specimens — ^including one 

 taken by Dr. Robert Bell, at Eesolution Island, Hudson Bay, 

 in July of 1885 — in the Dominion Museum at Ottawa! 



735a. Long-tailed Chickadee — Parus atricapillus septen- 

 trionalis (Harris). 



At Fort St. James, B.C., on 4th June, 1889, a Carrier 

 hunter found four eggs in a nest in a hole of a stout dry 

 pine. They had a small quantity of fine fur and wood 

 dust under them. The contents of the eggs were quite fresh. 

 Both parents were seen and the male was shot. Mr. H. 

 McKay, of Pelican Narrows, took a nest there in a similar 

 position early in June, 1891. It contained four eggs. He 

 has known them lay as many as six, while this chickadee is 

 among the comparatively few species which brave out the 

 cold of winter in that northern locality. Fairly abundant 

 in Alaska and British Columbia, and not rare on the Peace, 

 Athabasca and Mackenzie rivers of the north. I believe 

 that it also breeds and winters at Fort Anderson. There 

 are fifteen specimens, but no eggs, in the Canadian collection 

 at Ottawa ! 



739. Alaskan Chickadee — Parus ductus alascensis 

 (Cabanis). 



In previous A. O. U. Check Lists this species figured 

 under P. cinctus oMectus, and I here reproduce the notes 

 made thereanent in the frequently referred to paper on the 

 " Birds and Eggs Collected on the Anderson in the Years 

 1861-1866 " : " On 1st June, 1864, a nest containing seven 

 eggs was found near Fort Anderson, in a hole in a dry spruce 

 stump, at a height of about six feet from the ground. It. 

 was composed of a moderate quantity of hare or rabbit fur 

 intermixed with a sprinkling of dried moss. The female 

 bird was snared on the nest, but the male was not seen. The 

 contents of the eggs were tolerably fresh." It has since 

 turned out that " this was the first specimen of the Siberian 



