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ants. T'sually the grouse Avere found si ugly or in bunches of two or 

 three in the forest. When disturbed they generally flew up into the 

 tall Shasta firs, where, instead of remainiug motionless like many 

 grouse, they walked about among the branches, stepping deliberately 

 from limb to limb, but keeping on the opposite side from tlie enemy, so 

 that it was almost Impossible to see them. 



The old males were sometimes found high up on the lava ridges 

 among dwarf Finxs albieaidis, 1,000 feet or more above the continuous 

 forest. When flushed they usually spread their wings and soared down 

 the steep mountain side until lost from sight in the forest below. The 

 'hooting' or 'booming' of the old males, so often heard in the northern 

 Cascades, was not heard by any of our party on Shasta. 



10. Zenaidura macroura. Mourning Dove. 



Fairly couimou at Sisson. In Shasta Valley W. H. Osgood found 

 them abundant September 17-20. 



[The band-tail pigeon [Goliimha fasciata) was not observed in the 

 region by my party, but in the fall and winter of 1S83 C. II. Townsend 

 found it abundant in the foothills of the lower ]McCloud IJiver, " gather- 

 ing in the pine trees on the higher ridges in immense flocks,"] 



L*0. Cathartes aura. Turkey Vulture. 



One or two seen at Wagon Camp and between Wagon Camp and 

 Siss(m in July; one seen by Walter K. Fisher at timberline, east of 

 Mud Creek Canyon, about the end of July. At Sisson and in Shasta 

 Valley they were more common. 



21. Circus hudsonius. Marsh Hawk. 



Seen at Sisson the middle of July (F. A. M.) and end of August 

 (C. H. M.). Seen in Shasta Valley September 17-20 (W. II. Osgood). 



22. Accipiter velox. Sharp-shinned Hawk. 



Rather rare. One shot near Squaw Creek Camp August 10 by Ver- 

 non Bailey; one seen on Mud Creek in August, and several in Shasta 

 Valley by W. H. Osgood September 17-20. C. II. Townsend shot one 

 at timberline on Shasta September 7, 1883. 



23. Accipiter cooperi. Cooper Hawk. 



Eather rare. One killed above timberline (alt. 9,400 feet) above the 

 head of S(iuaw Creek August 21 by It. T. Fisher, In September 1883, 

 C. II. Townsend shot one near timberline on Shasta. 



21. Accipiter atricapillns striatulus. Western Goshawk. 



One visited our camp at Squaw Creek August 28. It was shot at 

 but not secured. July 28, 1883, C. H. Townsend shot two young gos- 

 hawks near timberline on Shasta. 



