40 Dice, Birds of Southeastern Washington. [j " n 



southern type littoralis, Acadian, while the late returning northward 

 birds of the present season from the fall migration of 1916, as being 

 farther north residents, would naturally be the Labrador birds, 

 the nigricans type? 





THE BIRDS OF WALLA WALLA AND COLUMBIA 

 COUNTIES, SOUTHEASTERN WASHINGTON. 1 



BY LEE RAYMOND DICE. 



The first definite knowledge of the vertebrate fauna of south- 

 eastern Washington was secured by J. K. Townsend (1839) and 

 Thomas Nuttall, who, accompanying a trading expedition across 

 the continent, reached, on September 3, 1834, the Hudson's Bay 

 Company's post of Fort Walla Walla, situated on the Columbia 

 River at the present site of Wallula. They remained here only a 

 few days when they proceeded down the river to Astoria. The 

 following year Townsend returned to Fort Walla Walla and re- 

 mained in that region from July 6 until September 3.' 



In 1857 the United States government established Fort Walla 

 Walla as an army post at the present site of Walla Walla. This is 

 more than fifty miles from the former Hudson's Bay Company's 

 post of the same name, and the fauna and flora of the two regions 

 are somewhat dissimilar. Some uncertainty in scientific literature 

 has been caused by the confusion of these two places. 



Capt. Chas. Bendire was stationed at Walla Walla for several 

 years, being there at least from August, 1879, until some time in 

 1881. 



Belding (1890) has published a considerable number of brief 

 notes from Walla Walla on birds observed by a person variously 

 quoted as Dr. Williams, J. W. Williams, and once as D. T. Williams. 

 These references probably refer to the same individual. From the 



1 Contribution from the Zoological Laboratory, Kansas State Agricultural College, 

 No. 16. 



