1?0S.] 



BIEDS. 



489 



on tLe upper Clearwater, on Metliye Portage, and between there and 

 Isle a la Crosse; and that Spreadborough took it at Edmonton m 

 May. 1897, found it common at Jasper House in June, 1898, and 

 observed one at Bear Creek. Peace Eiver, latitude 56°, in August, 

 1903." Seton records this species from the islands near the north 

 shore of Great Slave Lake, about longitude 112°.^ 



During the last week of August, 1891, J. Alden Loring reported 

 this bird common at Banff, Alberta, and took two specimens. In 

 the autumn of 1895 he found it common in the Jasper House region, 

 collecting two specimens at Henry House October 14. In 1896 he 

 rej^orted it conmion on the Jasper House trail from Blueberry Hills 

 westward in the early summer, and on the trail between Jasper House 

 and Smoky Eiver in the late summer and early autumn. In the lat- 

 ter region he found it associated with Penthestes a. septentHonalis 

 and Penthestes gamheli. He found it common also in the mountains 

 west of Henry House October 12 to 20, in company with P. a. septen- 

 tnonalis. During that season he took three specimens in Smoky Val- 

 ley, 50 miles north of Jasper House, on August 26, and two at the 

 head of Grand Cache River, about 60 miles north of Jasper House, 

 on August 31. 



Regulus satrapa Licht. Golden-crowned Kinglet. 



In 1901 we noted this species but once — at our camp near Point La 

 Brie. 12 miles northeast of Fort Chipewyan, where we took a male 

 on ^lay 27. 



During the summer of 1903 we obserA'ed it but once — noting one 

 on the Athabaska 40 miles below Athabaska Landing, May 17. 



Macoun states, on the authority of Spreadborough, that this kinglet 

 was common in spruce woods from Jasper House to the summit of 

 the Rocky Mountains in June. 1898.^" 



Regulus calendula (Linn.). Ruby-crowned Kinglet. 



This diminutive songster is a common breeder nearly throughout 

 the wooded region. 



In 1901 it Avas first noted near Vermilion Creek, 42 miles north of 

 Edmonton, May 3, and its song was heard at various points between 

 there and Athabaska Landing. May 4 and 5. It was next observed 

 at Poplar Point on the lower Athabaska. May 16. AMiile we were 

 collecting at our various camps near Fort Chipewyan, May 19 to 

 June 4. the bird was seen or heard nearly every day. It was next 

 observed near Fort Smith. June 24, and Avas noted on the banks of 

 the Slave 75 miles below Fort Smith. July 1. At Fort Resolution 



" Cat. Canadian Birds, Part III, p. 692, 1904. 

 f-Ank. XXV, p. 73, lOOS. 



c Cat. Canadian Birds, Part III, p. 697, 1904. 



