^°i89^"] Thorxe, Birds of Fort Keogh, Motttaiia. 211 



Goss,i on the contrary, in his excellent account of the habits of 

 this species, describes its call as a " loud and hoarse ho-hoo," and 

 adds : " Sometimes the same syllables are heard, in a much lower 

 tone, as if proceeding from the depth of the throat." The account 

 of so careful an observer is not to be questioned, and it is quite 

 probable that the notes of the Jamaican bird differ markedly from 

 those of the birds which inhabit Trinidad. 



It seems little short of murder to kill one of these birds. Cer- 

 tainly to shoot a calling bird was out of the question. Our 

 single specimen was shot as he sailed by one evening near the 

 stub where our first observations were made. He was wing- 

 tipped and before sacrificing him to the cause of science we 

 secured the photograph from which the illustration (PI. Ill) 

 accompanying this article was drawn. 



LIST OF BIRDS OBSERVED IN THE VICINITY OF 



FORT KEOGH, MONTANA, FROM JULY, 1888, 



TO SEPTEMBER, 1892. 



BY CAPT. PLATTE M. THORNE, U.S.A. 



Fort Keogh, on the right bank of the Yellowstone, has an 

 altitude of 2365 feet. The river bottom has an average width of 

 two miles, and has in parts a small and obscurely defined second 

 bench. River sand is reached at an average depth of six feet 

 in the higher parts. Tongue River empties into the Yellowstone 

 two miles to the north. Both rivers are rapid, and the only still 

 water is an irregular, reedy pond fed by springs and about three- 

 fourths of a mile long. This pond goes dry in summer some 

 years and remains so during the winter. The growth of cotton- 

 wood along both rivers is in places heavy, some trees showing 

 great age. Wild rose bushes grow luxuriantly on the moister 



' Birds of Jamaica, p. 42. 



