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out actually displacing the track, except that whole bridges 

 were gone from the larger streams. If the stops had been made 

 between stations the bird list- would have been larger. As it 

 was Krider's Hawk and Prairie Sharp-tailed Grouse exhibited 

 themselves conspicuously. 



Billings to Miles City, Mont. Aug. 18. 



Great Blue Heron. Arkansas Kingbird. 



Cireater Yellow-legs. Western Meadowlark. 



Yellowlegs. Bullock's Oriole. 



Western Solitary vSandpiper. Brewer's Blackbird. 



Spotted Sandpiper. American Goldfinch. 



Prairie Sharp-tailed Grouse. Western Vesper Sparrow. 



Swainson's Hawk. Western Lark Sparrow. 



Krider's Hawk. Barn Swallow. 



Desert Sparrow Hawk. Tree Swallow. 



American Osprey. Bank Swallow. 



Belted Kingfisher. Yellow Warbler. 



Red-headed Woodpecker. Catbird. 



Red-shafted Flicker. Brown Thrasher. 



Western Nighthawk. Chickadee. 



White-throated Swift. Western Robin. 

 Kingbird. 



The morning of the 14th found us racing over the plains 

 of western North Dakota, crossing river valleys and so get- 

 ting a better impression of the whole countr}-. Bad Land con- 

 ditions were giving place to the long rolling swells of the vast 

 prairie region, but .still inadeqtiately watered. Gradually 

 water became more abundant, gathered into ponds and small 

 lakes held between the hills. Here waders and swdmmers 

 swarmed. The sight of the packs of sandpipers resting on the 

 water or at its edge, of ducks in masses, made m^- fingers tin- 

 gle, for the species could not even be gtiessed at. Btit there 

 was no stopping here. We fairly flew^ after the smoking spot 

 far ahead untl it began to lengthen, and as it careened around 

 a ctirve, the cars might be counted. Then otir speed .slack- 

 ened, and once we were obliged to stop on a prairie .switch. Be- 

 side a ditch j U.St over the fence I made out the motionless form 

 of a Wilson's Snipe. The poor fellow stood there on one foot 

 during the whole five minutes of our stay, and did not so much 

 as wink, for all I could see. The Long-billed Curlew was the 

 only species added to the life list in North Dakota. At 



