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are never molested by man, it was absolutely impossible to 

 approach these birds except by stealth. I met the birds each 

 morning, and as many times tried to secure a specimen; one 

 hundred to two hundred yards was the nearest approach per- 

 mitted before they resorted to flight. One was finally secured 

 by taking advantage of a board fence that crossed the island and 

 some intervening bushes ; creeping forward as far as was safe 

 without being seen, a 75-yard shot with No. 5 shot secured the 

 long sought for bird. 



Rock Wrens {Salpindes obsoktus) were fairly numerous but dif- 

 fered in no way from the same species on the mainland. A pair 

 of Large-billed Sparrows {Fasserculus rostratus) were seen in a 

 patch of salt grass and one of the two secured. Black Phcebes 

 {Sayor?tis nigricans) Say's Phoebe ( Sayornis saya) were both pres- 

 ent, probably migrants from the mainland. 



Mockingbirds {Mimus polyglottos leucopterus) breeds sparingly 

 on the island, perhaps less than a half dozen pairs. Only one 

 was seen and taken. One shrike {Lanius) was seen but not taken. 

 A Great Blue Heron {Ardea herodias) was seen at different times, 

 but always alone. 



A LIST OF LAND BIRDS FROM CENTRAL AND 

 SOUTHEASTERN WASHINGTON. 



BY ROBERT E. SNODGRASS. 



The list of birds here given is the ornithological result of a 

 collecting expedition sent into the field during the summer of 

 1903 by the Washington Agricultural College. The expedition 

 started from Pullman and, going westward through Connell and 

 across the White Bluffs Ferry on the Columbia River as far as the 

 town of North Yakima, traversed the southern part of Whitman 

 County, the southeastern corner of Adams County, Franklin 

 County, the extreme south end of Douglas County, and the north- 



