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390 T H R O U G H T H E M A C K E N Z I E B A S IN
is three or four, although sets of five may sometimes be
found. Their ground colour is generally pale grey, more
r a r e l y pearl grey. They are profusely flecked and spotted
over the entire surface with different shades of brown, slate
grey and lavender. Their shape is ovate; the shell is smooth,
close- grained, and somewhat glossy." •
I n his breeding notes ( " Catalogue of Canadian B i r d s " )
Professor Macoun has omitted to mention the nests discovered
at F o r t Anderson. M r . R a i n e believes that this j ay
is the earliest breeder of all Canadian birds. The Ottawa
Museum contains five specimen skins, but no eggs, of this
sociable and abundant Canada j a y!
486a. N O R T H E R N R A V E N — C o r v u s corax principalis Ridg-way.
C h i e f Trader Lockhart found a nest i n a cleft of a poplar
tree, twenty feet f r om the ground, at F o r t Y u k o n , Alaska, on
29th M a y , 1862. This species is abundant at F o r t Anderson
and on the lower Lockhart and Anderson rivers, and although
not seen by us there, it may possibly breed on the shores of
the P o l a r Sea. A l l but one of the eight recorded nests were
situated on tall trees, one of them, containing five eggs, at a
height of about forty- five feet above the ground, and they
were composed of dry w i l l ow sticks and twigs, and t h i c k ly
l i n e d w i t h either deer hair or dry mosses, grasses, feathers,
and more or less skin hair f r om other animals. The usual
number of eggs was six, but seven and even eight were not
uncommon. The excepted nest was b u i l t on the ledge of a
rocky cliff on Lockhart. R i v e r . On 11th June, 1863, an
E s k i m o brought me the egg of a pigeon hawk and the head
of a raven, having, as he declared, shot i t on the nest, w h i ch
was placed on the topmost crotch of a pine tree. The latter,
therefore, probably either ate the other eggs, shells and a l l,
i f there were any, or dispossessed the former b i r d i n order
to occupy it herself. Mr. R a i n e has a set. of six eggs that
was taken at Peel's R i v e r , latitude 67° 30' north, on 27th
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| OCR | 390 T H R O U G H T H E M A C K E N Z I E B A S IN is three or four, although sets of five may sometimes be found. Their ground colour is generally pale grey, more r a r e l y pearl grey. They are profusely flecked and spotted over the entire surface with different shades of brown, slate grey and lavender. Their shape is ovate; the shell is smooth, close- grained, and somewhat glossy." • I n his breeding notes ( " Catalogue of Canadian B i r d s " ) Professor Macoun has omitted to mention the nests discovered at F o r t Anderson. M r . R a i n e believes that this j ay is the earliest breeder of all Canadian birds. The Ottawa Museum contains five specimen skins, but no eggs, of this sociable and abundant Canada j a y! 486a. N O R T H E R N R A V E N — C o r v u s corax principalis Ridg-way. C h i e f Trader Lockhart found a nest i n a cleft of a poplar tree, twenty feet f r om the ground, at F o r t Y u k o n , Alaska, on 29th M a y , 1862. This species is abundant at F o r t Anderson and on the lower Lockhart and Anderson rivers, and although not seen by us there, it may possibly breed on the shores of the P o l a r Sea. A l l but one of the eight recorded nests were situated on tall trees, one of them, containing five eggs, at a height of about forty- five feet above the ground, and they were composed of dry w i l l ow sticks and twigs, and t h i c k ly l i n e d w i t h either deer hair or dry mosses, grasses, feathers, and more or less skin hair f r om other animals. The usual number of eggs was six, but seven and even eight were not uncommon. The excepted nest was b u i l t on the ledge of a rocky cliff on Lockhart. R i v e r . On 11th June, 1863, an E s k i m o brought me the egg of a pigeon hawk and the head of a raven, having, as he declared, shot i t on the nest, w h i ch was placed on the topmost crotch of a pine tree. The latter, therefore, probably either ate the other eggs, shells and a l l, i f there were any, or dispossessed the former b i r d i n order to occupy it herself. Mr. R a i n e has a set. of six eggs that was taken at Peel's R i v e r , latitude 67° 30' north, on 27th |
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