66 THE OREGON 



year Brown cleared over $3000 in a 

 few months. Brown said that tlie 

 worst thing they had to contend with 

 was the Indian, wlio collected tribnte 

 from all hunters and was in addition 

 a most treacherous individual. A. 

 party of hunters bound on the same 

 mission, is preparing to leave Bakers- 

 field, and still anotlier will hunt the 

 Heron on the Gulf of California. 



SANDHILL CRANES. 



Oct. 9th, 1S97 saw eleven Sandhill 

 Cranes feeding in a wheat stubble 

 field near here. Saw these about 10 

 o'clock a. m., but it was a very foggy 

 day. 



Some years ago these birds were 

 quite common here, but for the last 10 

 or 12 years, only small bands have 

 been seen passing in Fall and Spring 

 migrations. 



They generally fly very high, .stop- 

 ping to feed only at night. 



Ellis F. Hadley. 



Dayton, Oregpn. 



DOUGLAS COUNTY NOTES. 



Since writing the notes wliich ap 

 peared in the December Oregon Nat- 

 uralist, I learn that my Pristiloma 

 stearnii should be Lansingii, Bland. 

 I have al.so added to my list Selenites 

 (now Circinaria) hemphilli W. G. B., 

 ofwhichlhave collected two speci- 

 mens. For determining tlie above 

 and many other specimens I am in- 

 debted to Dr. Dall. By a misprint in 

 my article Coiinlus fulvus Mull is 

 is changed to pulvus. 



Mr. Hadley 's article in same num- 



NATURALIST. 



ber reminds me of the following odd 

 ne.sting sites. June 21, '94, I col- 

 lected a set of seven Parkman's Wren 

 eggs from a bag hanging on a post. 

 The birds entered from the top. 



The Brewer's Blackbirds in this vi- 

 cinity nest in holes in dead fir trees. 

 The Flickers gouge out large holes in 

 the bark and sap wood in their search 

 for worms and in the cavity thus 

 formed the Blackbird builds its nest. 



To the list of accidental deaths I 

 would add a Varied Thrush which 

 v\ as killed by flying against a window 

 of our house, March 22, '97. 



On May 11, 1897. father saw a 

 Rufous Hummingbird fighting anoth- 

 ei small bird which he failed to iden- 

 tify. Later in the day passing the 

 same place he found a dead Macgilliv- 

 ray's Warbler in the trail. 



Has anyone found a set of five eggs 

 of the Western Robin ? At Omaha, 

 Neb., in '91, I collected a set of five 

 American Robin and saw another, but 

 never saw a set of three which I could 

 be positive was complete. Of the 

 Western Robin about half the sets are 

 a f three eggs and I have yet to find 

 five. 



Fred H. Andrus. 



Elktoti, Oregon. 



Vale, Malheur county, Oregon, has 

 an artesian well that is a hot gej'ser, 

 spouting at regular recurring periods, 

 having done so for two years without 

 fail. 



In the Fall, Prof. A. K. FLsher, De- 

 partiuent of Agriculture, will publish 

 a list of Oregon birds. 



