THE OREGON NATURALIST. 



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^nive and the garden, wliile in sununer 

 it retreats into the woods. They are 

 very pugnacious in their habits and 

 will tight others of its kind with relent- 

 less ferocity and ardor. Its call note is 

 '•Sis>i!" 



Some Notes on Migration taken at Salem, 

 Oregon, by George D. I'eclt, 1896. 



March 2. — Violet-green swallow first 

 seen. On April 4, thej" were common. 



March 22. — Rufous hummer male, 

 first seen. On April 4th, females were 

 observed and on the eleventh of the 

 month a neat was found containing two 

 eggs. 



March 23. — Saw lark sparrow. 



April 2. — Dwarf hermit thrush, male 

 taken, also lutescent warbler, male. 



April 4 — Maryland yellowthroat, male. 



April 5. — Vesper sparrow, first seen. 



Aprils. — Band-tailed pigeon, first 

 seen. On this date Audubon's warbler 

 was observed in full plumage. This 

 species has been common all winter and 

 as late as May 5th was seen in thous- 

 ands, but on May 6th only one bird was 

 seen. No more were observed until 

 May loth when a smal. fiock of females 

 were seen. 



April 9. Saw four hermit thrushes. 



April 15. Nest of sooty grouse found 

 containing four eggs. 



April 16. — Black-throated gray war- 

 bler male seen and on the 29th heard 

 singing. Arkansas goldfinch first seen. 



April 20. — Cassin's vireo first seen. 



April 29. — Lincoln's sparrow, one seen. 

 A rare sparr.Av here. On this day Town- 

 send's warbler was taken from a small 

 flock that constantly stayed in the tops 

 of the trees. 



April 30. — Saw a small flock of Savan- 

 nah sparrows. 



May 2. — Cliff swallow and two Mac- 

 gillivrays warbler males first seen. 



May 7. — Saw red-bellied nuthatch ex- 

 cavating a nest. 



May 8. — Saw male yellow warbler. 



May 11. — Russet-backed thrush first 

 heard but not seen. Saw two little fly 

 catchers. Pileolated warbler first be- 

 come common. 



May 12. — Saw two male lazuli finches 

 in the companj' of a large flock of gold 

 finches. Carolina dove first lieard. 



May 13. — Long-tailed chat heard and 

 Bullock's oriole first seen. 



May 15. — Not a ruby-crowned kinglet 

 was seen to-day ; they have been here in 

 numbers numberless. 



May 18. — Black-headed grosbeak and 

 Parkman's wren first seen. 



Crater Liake and tlie Mazamas. 



The Mazamas are a society with head- 

 quarters at Portland, Oregon, whose 

 purpose, similar in nature to that of the 

 Alpine Club of England, the Appalach- 

 ain Club of New England, and the Sierra 

 Club of California, is the exploration of 

 the mountains of the Pacific Northwest 

 and the publishing of information con- 

 cerning them. With this object in view 

 they are accustomed to make annual ex- 

 peditions to points of leading interest, 

 which are attended by large numbers of 

 people, and which have become cele- 

 brated throughout the country. Thus 

 in 1894 they assembled, nearly two hun- 

 dred strong, on the summit of Mt. Hood ; 

 last year their rendezvous was at 

 Mount Adams ; while the present year 

 they will during the week beginning 

 August IHth conduct an excursion to 

 Crater Lake, w hich has every prospect 

 of being the most largely attended and 

 the most successful of any similar event 

 ever known upon the Pacific Coast. 



In his book, "The Mountains of Ore- 

 gon," Mr. \\n\. (t. Steel, who assisted a 

 party sent out by the U. S. Geological 

 Survey in 1886, to survey and sound the 

 lake, thus describes it: 



