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July- August, 19' 4 
Volume XVII 
NESTING OF THE BOHEMIAN WAXWING IN NORTHERN 
BRITISH COLUMBIA 
By ERNEST M. ANDERSON 
WITH TWO PHOTOS BY THE AUTHOR 
HILE ON a general collecting trip in northern British Columbia during 
the summer of 1914, in the interests of the Provincial Museum, we 
rather unexpectedly discovered a breeding ground of the Bohemian 
Waxwing ( Bomby cilia garrula). Although a sharp look-out had been kept both 
by my companion, Mr. C. B. Garrett, and myself, throughout the month of 
June, no Waxwings were noted until the 7th of July, when an adult male was 
secured a short distance from “Hot Springs”, situated on the east shore of 
Atlin Lake. Finding the specimen to be a male, I immediately hunted for its 
mate. A careful search was made for nearly two hours among the thickly 
growing spruce and pine trees, but in vain ; it is quite probable that the bird 
shot had wandered some distance from its home, as no others were seen in the 
same section until well on in the fall. 
Concluding that we were camped not far from the Waxwings’ breeding 
grounds, we made an early start the following day in quest of their eggs. With 
the aid of a gasoline launch we were enabled to cover a wide extent of coun- 
try, visiting many points on Atlin Lake, and some small isolated islands that 
otherwise would have been left unscanned. Our success on this occasion, there- 
fore, was largely due to our adequate means of travel. After hunting all the 
forenoon without locating any Waxwings, we decided to renew our search 
farther down the lake during the afternoon. 
Since no Waxwings had been noted near the lake shore or on adjacent 
islands, we headed our boat toward a group of small islands about a mile off- 
shore and varying from about three to ten acres in size. All were timbered 
with growth of stunted spruce, pine and aspen, with undergrowth consisting 
chiefly of thick willow bushes. 
