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fall to winter is being recorded. The altitude is 3,000 feet, 

 so we are on the normal snow line for the season. 



1. Lophodytes cuculatus. Hooded Merganser. — One seen in Med- 

 ical Lake. 



2. Mareca americana. Baldpate. — Little Medical Lake. The 

 commonest market bird at this season. 



3. Clangula islandica. Barrow's Golden-eye. — A flock of a dozen 

 males and another of three females on Little Medical Lake. 



4. Ortyx virginianus. Bob-white. — Two large coveys seen near 

 town. Said to be thoroughly established hereabouts. 



5. Buteo borealis calurus. Western Red-tail. — A small bird with 

 an unusually stiff, sluggish flight was repeatedly flushed from the 

 tops of pine trees near Little Medical. 



6. Bubo virginianus saturatus (?). Dusky Horned Owl. — Only 

 one seen. Not common. 



7. Ceryle alcyon. Kingfisher. — Two flying abcut Hangman 

 Creek, Nov. 4th. 



8. Dryobates pubescens homorus. Batchelder Woodpecker. — ■ 

 One seen. The pure whites of this bird are strikingly noticeable 

 as compared with D. p. gairdnerii found further west. 



9. Colaptes cafer collaris. Red-shafted Flicker. — Common. Have 

 seen a dozen at once. And still the uncircumcised call him "Yel- 

 low-hamimer." 



10. Otocoris alpestris arcticola. Alaska Horned Lark. — A close 

 study of a dozen individuals has left no question as to the pre- 

 vailing form. These birds have evidently displaced O. a. nerrilli 

 for the winter. 



11. Pica pica hudsonica. Black-billed Magpie. — Common. They 

 wander abcut the country in loose companies containing a score 

 of birds apiece, but persecution has taught them great discretion, 

 and one hears oftenest the subdued query and comment of invis- 

 ible birds. 



12. Nucifraga columbiana. Clarke's Nutcracker. — Two seen in 

 Minnehaha Park. 



lo. Sturneila magna neglecta. Western Meadowlark. — Two seen 

 near Lark Street, en the 20th. 



14. Euphagus cyanocephalus. Brewer's Blackbird. — One flock 

 encountered near Little Medical Lake on the 11th. 



15. Hesperiphona vespertina montana. Western Evening Gros- 

 beak. — The Ccccothraustine yell, unmistakable to the initiated, was 

 once heard en Carncn Hill, Nov. 20th. 



16. Loxia sp. A few Crossbills were seen flying about in a 

 snowstorm, Nov. 2.5. 



17. Acarthis linaria. Redpoll. — Not yet common. 



18. Astragalinus tristis pallidus. Pale Goldfinch. — A troop seen 

 Nov. 4th were feeding upon fallen sunflower seeds. The colors 



