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me wholl}' by surprise. Nor was I jirepared to see so many 

 White-winged Scoters on the head waters of the Missouri. 

 Just before we reached Bozeman, during a gentle shower, Arc- 

 tic Towhee came into view, and in a field just beyond the out- 

 skirts of the city a family of Columbian Sharp-tailed Orouse 

 skurried awaj' under the fence. Thus ended the second day 

 ornithologically, but not meteorologically. During the day 

 there had been an ever increasing indication of trouble ahead, 

 but nothing definite could be learned. The rumors of a great 

 washout on the Yellowstone be^'ond Billings began to die out 

 as darkness settled down upon the walled valley of this great 

 river. Near midnight our dreams of the green fields of the old 

 home were rudely dispelled by the summons to leave the train. 

 A few moments later the intelligence that no trains would 

 leave Billings for three days came rather startlingly, but even 

 midnight wayfarers can find where to lay their heads. There 

 had been a great cloud-burst in the Yellowstone valley which 

 left broken embankments and ruined bridges in its wake. 



Thompson's Falls to Livingston, Mont. Aug. 11. 



Cinnamon Teal. Arkansas Kins(bird. 



White-vvinji^ed Scoter. Say's Phoebe. 



Great Blue Heron. Desert Horned Lark. 



Spotted Sandpiper. American Magpie. 



Killdeer. American Crow. 

 Columbian Sharp-taileil Grouse. Bobolink. 



Mourning Dove. Brewer's BlackVnrd. 



Mar.sh Hawk, Pine Siskin. 



Sharp-shinned Hawk. Western \'esper Sparrow. 



Swainson's Hawk Western Lark Sparrow. 



P'erruginous Rough-leg. Mountain Song Sparrow. 



Desert Sparrow Hawk. Arctic Towhee 



American Osprey. Green-tailed Towhee. 



Belted Kingfisher. Black-headed Gro.sbeak. 



Lewis's Woodpecker. Barn Swallow 



Red-shafted Flicker. Bank Swallow. 



Western Nighthawk. Yellow Warbler. ' 



Kingbird. We.stern Robin. 



^Mountain BluelHrd 



Serious as delay at fir.st appeared, it proved a boon in real- 

 ity, for the opportunity to study the birds of the region was a 

 rare one. Among the thirty-seven species recorded two were 

 new to my life list and ten were new to the trip. 



