48 THE OREGON NATURALIST. 



noted a similar case about a niontU Partridge found dead near the wire 

 earlier; cause of death, starvation, netting surrounding the tennis court. 

 Several birds a year for the last fifteen A bruise on the bird's neck and shoul- 

 years came down an unused flue into der indicates it probably killed itself 

 the garret. In November a female by flying against the wire. Earlier 

 bird came down a temporarily disused in the sea.son while hunting this Quail 

 two stor}' chimney, crawled out one bird came to its end by .striking a 

 through the grate and into the room, strand of barbed wire and another by 

 She was caught and killed after sev- striking the top of a picket fence, 

 eral of her severe onslaughts on a Both birds were, ju.st prior to flying 

 window pane. against these objects, very slightly 



June, 1895 — 52 English Sparrows in wounded by shot and were both shot 

 ^ various juvenile stages were taken the same morning. 



from their nests in an ivy-covered oak • — <-^» — • 



stub by the writer who hopes this WRENS OF YAMHILL CO., 

 wholesale .slaughter of Briti.sh sub- OREGON. 



jects will not lead to international 



complications. The Western Winter Wren is a very 



June, 1895 — The unusual rains sly little bird, in this locality, general- 

 (June is our dr}- sea.son) dislodged a ly found in retired places in the timber, 

 few nests of House Finch containing It begins singing about Februarj' i. 

 eggs and young from foliage of Ithasquite a nursical .song, and a verj- 

 pine and cypress trees. Nests in strong voice for so small a bird, 

 twigs of other trees and shrubs having The greater number of them .seem to 

 firmer foundation, did not fall, but an leave the valley and go to the mount- 

 occasional veiy small bird in them ainstone.st. 



was killed l>y the dampness ot the Nests are placed in hollows of logs, 

 nest. trees and in the roots of upturned 



August, 1895 — Found a live We.st- trees, 

 em Wood Pewee finnl}- held by a I have found the nests of this Wren 

 wing with spider web to a camomile but have never collected a set of tlieir 

 plant growing along the roadside, eggs. The eggs are of a clear white 

 The bird was not suspended — simply ground color, spotted with reddish- 

 ".staked out" by a wing, and it brown and four or five in number, 

 seemed apparent that a violent jerk This Wren arrive.s in the valley from 

 01 two on the bird's part could have the mountains about November ist. 

 freed it, ])Ut it offered only slight re- where it remains until about April 

 sistance to being canght and it is ist, when they leave for the moun- 

 jirobable it would have starved to tains to breed. 



death in bond rge or fallen prey to one Vigors Wren is a common resident 

 of the numerous roving cats of the in the valley and especiallj' along the 

 neighborhood had I not relieved it. rivers, where it may be seen perched 



January, 1896 — A female California on some old stump or bush, ])ouring 



