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402 THROUGH T H E MACKENZIE BASIN
three of the nests, and they are beautifully and compactly
made, externally of fine roots and grass, and the, inside
felted with down and feathers. In course of our five seasons'
residence at Fort Anderson, where this species was common,
we received and exported to Washington about eighty nests
of both ( Nos. 527 and 528), while we found them more
abundant in 1864 than during any other summer.
There are eleven specimens and but one set of four eggs,
taken at Great Whale River, Hudson Bay, May, 1899, by
Mr. A. P. Low, in the Dominion Museum at Ottawa!
533. SISKIN— S p i n u s pinus ( Linn.).
At Fort St. James, Stuart's Lake, B. C., on 22nd June,
1889, a nest holding three perfectly fresh eggs was found
on a willow bush. The mother was shot, and a part thereof
together with the eggs were forwarded to Washington, where
the specimens were identified as belonging to this species.
Mr. Raine states that he has several nests with sets of
eggs that were taken at Hamilton Inlet, Labrador, during the
summers of 1895 to 1898. One of these nests is a pretty
specimen of bird architecture, and made externally of fine
twigs and roots held together by moss, with the inside lined
with feathers. It was found June 17th, 1898, in a spruce
tree, ten feet from the ground, and contained five greenish-white
eggs spotted with brown.
The Museum at Ottawa possesses eleven specimens and
four sets of eggs of this species, all taken in Eastern Canada
in 1894.
534. S N O W F L A K E — P a s s e r i n a nivalis ( Linn.).
The only authenticated nest and eggs ( No. 10,433) in
the Smithsonian Institution at Washington as late as 1874
was that discovered by us in a small hole large enough to
admit of the female, and it was placed at a distance of nearly
two feet from the entrance in a sandbank along the shores
of Franklin Bay. " The nest is deeply saucer- shaped, and
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| OCR | 402 THROUGH T H E MACKENZIE BASIN three of the nests, and they are beautifully and compactly made, externally of fine roots and grass, and the, inside felted with down and feathers. In course of our five seasons' residence at Fort Anderson, where this species was common, we received and exported to Washington about eighty nests of both ( Nos. 527 and 528), while we found them more abundant in 1864 than during any other summer. There are eleven specimens and but one set of four eggs, taken at Great Whale River, Hudson Bay, May, 1899, by Mr. A. P. Low, in the Dominion Museum at Ottawa! 533. SISKIN— S p i n u s pinus ( Linn.). At Fort St. James, Stuart's Lake, B. C., on 22nd June, 1889, a nest holding three perfectly fresh eggs was found on a willow bush. The mother was shot, and a part thereof together with the eggs were forwarded to Washington, where the specimens were identified as belonging to this species. Mr. Raine states that he has several nests with sets of eggs that were taken at Hamilton Inlet, Labrador, during the summers of 1895 to 1898. One of these nests is a pretty specimen of bird architecture, and made externally of fine twigs and roots held together by moss, with the inside lined with feathers. It was found June 17th, 1898, in a spruce tree, ten feet from the ground, and contained five greenish-white eggs spotted with brown. The Museum at Ottawa possesses eleven specimens and four sets of eggs of this species, all taken in Eastern Canada in 1894. 534. S N O W F L A K E — P a s s e r i n a nivalis ( Linn.). The only authenticated nest and eggs ( No. 10,433) in the Smithsonian Institution at Washington as late as 1874 was that discovered by us in a small hole large enough to admit of the female, and it was placed at a distance of nearly two feet from the entrance in a sandbank along the shores of Franklin Bay. " The nest is deeply saucer- shaped, and |
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