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years or more a bird in the Provincial Museum at Victoria has constituted 

 the only record for this species for British Columbia. This is said to have 

 been taken many j-ears ago in Similkameen valley by Mr. R. U. Griffin, 

 but has never had any label to my knowledge. 



I am glad to be able to now record the capture of a fine adult female by 

 Mr. James Munro near Okanagan Landing on December 20 last. 



Selasphorus alleni. Allen's Hummingbird. — I wish now to recall 

 my former tentative record of this species in British Columbia. After 

 examining a series of undoubted alleni in the Museum of Vertebrate 

 Zoology at Berkeley, I have come to the conclusion that I have never seen 

 this species in the Province. 



Zonotrichia querula. Harris' Sparrow. — An adult taken by myself 

 April 30, and a juvenile taken by Mr. James Munro December 1, both 

 at Okanagan Landing constitute two fresh records for B. C. It is curious 

 that five out of the six records for the Province were made in the winter 

 months. 



Ammodramus s. bimaculatus. Western Grasshopper Sparrow. 

 — After a considerable interval during which I have lost sight of this 

 little sparrow I was last year able to re-locate the species in the hills back 

 of Okanagan Landing and took adult and young in first plumage as well as 

 a nest with four eggs. They are rare now in the locality where I first 

 found the species in 1898. 



Melospiza c. rufina. Sooty Song Sparrow.— Although Okanagan 

 is in the semi arid belt its Song Sparrows seem to be closest to this subspe- 

 cies. In my collection I have both breeding birds and others taken in 

 midwinter which cannot be distinguished from specimens taken on Queen 

 Charlotte Islands and at Quatsino Sound (N. W. coast of Vancouver Id.). 



The lightest British Columbian skins I have in my series are from 

 Chilliwack, but taken as a whole the Song Sparrows of B. C. are remarkably 

 uniform, and for my part I would be very glad to see the subspecies mor- 

 phna dropped altogether.— Allan Brooks, Okanagan Landing, B. C. 



Eastern Oregon Notes. — In ' The Auk ' for April, 1911, was published a 

 note extending the range of Oreortyx, to all intents, to the Idaho bound- 

 ary, the exact limit being 15 miles west of the Snake river, at Vale, Oregon. 



Since this article appeared further data on this species lead me to think 

 that this partridge is gradually extending its range eastward. 



They were found rather common and nesting 15 miles above Vale along 

 Bully Creek, a tributary of the Malheur river, also they were reported 

 rather common at Skull Springs some 50 miles southwest of Vale. A 

 ock of young was seen at Willow Creek a few miles above Ironside at the 

 base of the Burnt River Mts. 



Reports of the presence of the species have been received from several 

 of the tributaries of the Malheur River proving that the bird is more or 

 less generally distributed over a considerable extent of the eastern part 

 of the state. 



