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CHAPTER VII. 



THE COLVILLE VALLEY OUR HEADQUARTERS THE WHITE-BELLIED 

 SWALLOW - - CLIFF SWALLOW BANK SWALLOW - - ROUGH- 

 WINGED SWALLOW BARN SWALLOW AND ITS STRANGE NEST- 

 ING-PLACE VIOLET-GREEN SWALLOW WESTERN MEADOW 



LARK - - TOWNSEND'S FLYCATCHER -- AMERICAN RAVENS - 

 BULLOCK'S ORIOLE BREWER'S BLACKBIRD OR WESTERN 



GRACKLE OR CANADA VAY WHISKY JACK LESSER REDPOLE 



THE LAZULI FINCH OREGON GROUND ROBIN GREY- 

 CROWNED FINCH. 



THE United States Boundary Commission were 

 stationed about eighteen miles from the Hudson's 

 Bay Company's fort. It would be of little in- 

 terest to recount the building of our log-quarters, 

 stowing provisions, and completing all the re- 

 quisite arrangements for the coming winter. It 

 will suffice to say, all was satisfactorily arranged, 

 and ample provision made for the commissariat 

 of both men and animals. 



Colville valley, in which we erected our head- 

 quarters, does not belong to British Columbia, 

 but is in American territory. There was no 



