iSgz] 'Lkwkts.i^C'E, Birds of (iray's Harbor, Washingion. A\ 



River, in a very rough and densely wooded region, some ten 

 miles northeast of Stevens Prairie. Occasional trips were taken 

 to the harbor, and in Jnne, 1891, one long tramp of five days to 

 Qiiiniault Lake, a lovely sheet of water lying eighteen miles 

 north from Stevens Prairie. Until April but little chance was 

 had to study the bird life. The winters are generally mild at 

 Humptulips, though there are many frosty nights in summer. 

 There is a great rainfall from late autumn to well into the spring; 

 perhaps nearly one hundred inches of rain fall yearly. What 

 snow falls usuallv melts in a few days, except on the high ridges. 

 The summers are generally dry and line from late Jime to Sep- 

 tember. 



To Dr. J. A. Allen many thanks are due for much assistance 

 in determining species and for courtesy shown. 



iEchmophorus occidentalis. Western Grebe. — Winter resident? 

 Occasional? Have seen a mounted specimen, shot on tlie harboi" about 

 February. 



Urinator imber. Loox. — Winter resident? A skin examined of one 

 shot on the harbor in March. 



Lunda cirrhata. Tufted Puffin. — Accidental. Rare at this point 

 on the coast. I have examined a mounted specimen and a skin of birds 

 secured on tlie south and north sides of the harbor after a great storm, or 

 series of storms, about December 25, 1S90, when a large number of the 

 bodies of these birds v.'ere driven on to the beach. About thirty were 

 seen by Mr. S. A. Wye below Peterson's Point (Point Chehalis), and 

 perhaps as many above Point Brown • — one of these birtls was alive. 



Larus glaucescens. Glaucous-winged Gull. — Winter resident. 

 Very common about tide-water from fall until late spring. During the 

 salmon runs in fall and winter, when so many hundreds of these fish are 

 at times rotting along certain branches of the Humptulips, and far up the 

 river, these birds fly often thirty miles or more up-stream to feed upon 

 them, returning at evening to the harbor. 



Larus occidentalis. Western Gull. — Winter resident. Veiy com- 

 mon on tide-water, and I think in greater numbers than any other Gull. 

 Habits similar to L. glaucescens. 



Larus Philadelphia. Bonaparte's Gull. — Winter resident. Habits 

 similar to those of the two above. In numbers not so plentiful. Large 

 flocks reported seen on Qiiiniault Lake in April. 



Merganser americanus. American Merganser. — Resident. Com- 

 mon on the Humptulips, where they breed. 



Anas boschas. Mallard. — Resident? Cominon during migrations. 

 A few are said to breed on the Humptulips and Upper Qiiiniault Rivers, 

 but I am not yet quite positive of this. 

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