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Wliile passing through St. Ignatius, on the Reservation, our 

 attention was attracted by the Arkansas kingbird, Tyrannus 

 rerticallis Say, and a nest was found in a corral, on the groove 

 of a windlass, beside one of the uprights. It was about twelve 

 feet from the ground, and was made of soft fibers, stems, and 

 cordage. It contained three eggs, in which incubation had 

 begun. The eggs of the Arkansas kingbird closely resemble 

 those of the kingbird, being cream-white with irregular spots 

 of reddish-brown. 



Conclusion 



If the foregoing were intended to be a list of the breeding 

 birds of the Flathead region, there are many notes which might 

 be incorporated in this report. However, it is intended simply 

 as a record of what was done in the period mentioned; hence 

 every note stands for a nest or specimen actually seen. On 

 June 18, a brood of young ducks was led to the water by the 

 parents, American golden-eye, Glaucionetta clangula americana 

 Bonap., from a hole in a cottonwood near the boat-house on 

 the Helena Club grounds. The parent birds were observed 

 visiting and leaving the hole by younger members of our 

 party, and upon their reporting the matter to me, we went to 

 the place, to find that the family had taken to the water and 

 doubtless forever abandoned their woody cell. On another oc- 

 casion, when a pleasure party was spending a day near the 

 bridge, one of the boys discovered a nest of a hummingbird, 

 doubtless the rufous hummingbird, Selasphorus rufus Gmel., as 

 it was taken from bushes overhanging the bank of Swan River. 

 Before it was brought to my notice, the two eggs were lost and 

 the nest destroyed. These instances are mentioned to show 

 that no attempt has been made to prolong this list beyond the 

 actual observation of the collector, nor was it the intention to 

 secure a lengthy list. As a record of private collecting, it is 

 given here in the desire to contribute to a more general dis- 

 tribution of the natural history data of the state. 



