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not common in the Big Bend country. A few were seen at Freshwater 

 Lake in the south half of the Coulee, and the^- were rather nunieious 

 along the Columbia at the head of the Coulee. 



30. PocEcetes gramineus confinis. Western Vesper Sparrow. 

 — This is probal3ly the most common bird of the Big Bend region. It 

 inhabits alike the original undisturbed sage-brush covered tracts and the 

 most extensive wheat fields. Everywhere it flits up before one, and it js a 

 constant occupant of all barbed-wire fences. 



31. Chondestes grammacus strigatus. Western Lark Sparrow. — 

 Common everywhere in the Coulee and also throughout the Big Bend 

 country. 



32. Spizella breweri. Brewer's Sparrow. — This very little sparrow 

 associates everywhere with the much, larger but similarly-colored Vesper 

 Sparrow. It is, however, not nearly so abundant as the latter. The 

 Columbia River is apparently almost the northern limit of its range in 

 Washington, for Dawson reports but one specimen from Okanogan 

 County. 



33. Amphispiza belli nevadensis. Sage Sparrow. — We found this 

 species common on the sage-brush plain south of the Grand Coulee 

 between the towns of Adrian and Ephrata on the Great Northern Railway, 

 and also about Soap Lake (or Alkali Lake) in the southern end of the 

 Coulee. North of here we did not meet with it, either in the Coulee or 

 on the plains at either side, nor did we see it anywhere to the east or 

 southeast. Dawson does not report it from Okanogan County. We 

 probably collected the bird at the northern limit of its range. It has 

 never been taken in Whitman County, and nothing is known of its 

 range in the middle of the southern part of the State. 



34. Melospiza melodia montana (.?) Mountain Song Sparrow. — 

 This is a rare bird in the Big Bend. A few individuals were seen and 

 heard near Freshwater Lake about two miles south of Coulee City. Only 

 one specimen was obtained here. No others were met with in the whole 

 country until we got to Crab Creek in the southeastern part of Lincoln 

 County. The bird is abundant all over Whitman County. 



35. Pipilo maculatus var. 1 One individual seen near the town of 

 Ephrata on the Great Northern Railway, just southwest of the mouth of 

 the Grand Coulee. No others met with. 



36. Cyanospiza amcena. Lazuli Bunting. — A few individuals seen 

 at Freshwater Lake in the southern part of the Coulee, and a few at the 

 head along the Columbia. Only one specimen obtained. 



37. Piranga ludoviciana. Louisiana Tanager. — This species was 

 found only on the bank of the Columbia at the head of the Grand Coulee. 



38. Petrochelidon lunifrons. Cliff Swallow. — Common through- 

 out the entire length of the Coulee, nesting along the cliffs. This is also 

 the commonest swallow all over the Big Bend country. 



39. Hirundo erythrogaster. Barn Swallow. — This swallow was 

 not met with in the Coulee. A few were seen about the towns of Wilbur 

 and Harrington in Lincoln County. 



