. Life histories of North American birds with special reference to their breeding habits and eggs [microform]. Birds; Birds; Oiseaux; Oiseaux. !^ 1 '\. 76 LIFE niSTORlES OP NORTH AMERICAN BIRI)8 southeast throiijjli the Harroii Grounds, to tho west coast of Hudson Bay, the Northeast Territory, and sou hern i^altrador, and possilily Anticosti Ishiud, in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Mr. K. \V. Nelson states tliat "tliis heautiful I'tarniij^an is a eoninion resi- dent of the mainland, and unlike the eoninion White I'tarnii^au it fre(juents the sunnnits of the low hills and monntains di
. Life histories of North American birds with special reference to their breeding habits and eggs [microform]. Birds; Birds; Oiseaux; Oiseaux. !^ 1 '\. 76 LIFE niSTORlES OP NORTH AMERICAN BIRI)8 southeast throiijjli the Harroii Grounds, to tho west coast of Hudson Bay, the Northeast Territory, and sou hern i^altrador, and possilily Anticosti Ishiud, in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Mr. K. \V. Nelson states tliat "tliis heautiful I'tarniij^an is a eoninion resi- dent of the mainland, and unlike the eoninion White I'tarnii^au it fre(juents the sunnnits of the low hills and monntains diu'ing the sunnner sea- son, where it remains until the severe weather of early winter forees it down t(t the lower elevations and under the shelter of the Itush-borderetl ravines and furrows markinj;- the slopes.'" There is evidently hut little different' in the };eneral habits of this speeies and those of the comnion Willow I'tarnii^an, that it frecpients hii^her altitudes durin"- the breeding season. We are iiuhibted to Mr. 11. MaeFarlane for nearly all we know about the breedinjy habits, nests, and eyj^s of this interestin()2, not one well-identiKed I'.xample wiis discovered west of Ilorton liiver, but during the winter scores of niprstiis were met with in the forest country east of Fort ;- The " Barren Grounds," s(» often referred to in connection with the breed- ing grounds of numerous birds, are thus described by Mr. K. MaeFarlane in a paper entitled, "On an Fxpedition (hiwn the Begh-Ula or Anderson River:" "The l)elt of tim'oer which at Fort AndiMson ' extends for over .'}(• miles to the eastward, rapiilly narrows and becomes a mere fringe along the AncU'rson River, and disappears to the northward oi' the sixty-ninth jjarallel of latitu. l:ili. -' From K. MucKarlaiiu's uii liaiiil anil Water llinls NcHtiiit; in Itritixli Nnrtli America, ' KatabliNlixil uu Audersuu Klvur in ISOl, and abancldnnl
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