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NORTH AMERICAN FAUNA. 



[NO. 27. 



north to that post, and as having been taken at Fort Simpson.'^ Ben- 

 dire records a skin obtained near Fort Good Flope,^ and the bird cata- 

 logue of the National Museum shows that specimens were received 

 also from Fort Resolution and Fort Simpson. MacFarlane, proba- 

 bly referring to the Anderson River region, states that a few strag- 

 gling birds have been observed in the far north. He mentions a nest 

 found in the Clearwater Valle}^ late in June, 1873/^ Russell took a 

 specimen at Fort Chipewyan, June 12, 1893, and reported it not un- 

 common.'^ Macoun states that in the summer of 1888, J. M. Macoun 

 observed this species along the Athabaska from the mouth of Lesser 

 Slave Rif er to the Clearwater, as well as on Methye Portage, and be- 

 tween Methye Lake and Isle a la Crosse.^ 



J. Alden Loring reported the species common on the trail between 

 Edmonton and Jasper House in the summer of 1896. 



Chaetura pelagica (Linn.). Chimney Swift. 



The chimney swift has not been reported farther north than 

 Edmonton, Alberta, where Macoun states that Spreadborough saw 

 two individuals on May IT, 1897.^ 



Aeronautes melanoleucus (Baird). White-throated Swift. 



J. Alden Loring reported seeing a single bird of this species 15 

 miles south of Henry House about July 2, 1896. This is probably 

 near the northern limit of its range. 



Trochilus colubris (Linn.), Rubj^-throated Hummingbird. 



Macoun, concerning this species, says : " I have noticed the hum- 

 ming bird as far north as lat. 59°, in the vicinity of Lake Atha- 

 baska." 



Richardson states : " Trochilus coliihris * * * ranges, in sum- 

 mer, to the fifty-seventh parallel, perhaps even still farther north. 

 We obtained specimens on the plains of the Saskatchewan, and Mr. 

 Drummond found one of its nests near the sources of the Elk [Atha- 

 baska] River." 



AYliile the Saskatchewan bird is undoubtedly properly identified, 

 the nest found by Drummond almost certainly belonged to the rufous 

 hummingbird. 



«Nat. Hist. Rev., II (second ser.), p. 278, 1862. 



&Life Hist. N. A. Birds [II], p. 163, 1896. 



« Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XIY, p. 438, 1891. 



^ Expl. iu Far North, p. 264, 1898. 



^ Cat. Canadian Birds, Part II, p. 326, 1903. 



^bid., p. 330, 1903. 



9 Manitoba and Great Nortli-West, p. 359, 1881. 

 ^ Fauna Boreali-Americana, II, p. 323, 1831. 



