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40. Tachycineta thalassina lepida. Northern Violet-green Swal- 

 low. — This species was common at various places in the Grand Coulee^ 

 but was not so universally abundant as the Cliff Swallow. 



41. Lanius ludovicianus excubitorides. White-rumped Shrike. — 

 Not common but found the whole length of the Coulee. 



42. Dendroica aestiva. Yellow Warbler. — Found wherever favor- 

 able clumps of small trees or bushes occur. 



4g. Geothlypis trichas occidentalis. Western Yellow-throat. — 

 Common in reedy marshes of the Grand Coulee. Taken also at Rock 

 Creek in the northwest part of Whitman County. 



44. Icteria virens longicauda. Long-tailed Chat. — We found this 

 bird near the town of Ephrata southwest of the mouth of the Grand 

 Coulee, at various places in the Coulee as far north as the Columbia, at 

 Crab Creek in the southeastern part of Lincoln County, at Rock Creek 

 in northwestern Whitman County. It occurs also about Pullman and 

 along the'Snake River in Whitman County. 



45. Setophaga ruticilla. American Redstart. — One male specimen 

 taken in dense growth of trees along Crab Creek in southeastern part of 

 Lincoln County. A female seen here also, but otherwise the species was 

 not met with. 



46. Oroscoptes montanus. Sage Thrasher. — This bird is seldom 

 seen and it confines itself to the undisturbed sage-brush areas. We saw 

 two individuals near the town of Ephrata on the Great Northern 

 Railway, another in the Grand Coulee somewhat north of the middle, 

 a fourth at Crab Creek in Lincoln County, and a fifth one in the wide 

 strip of 'scab-land' just south of Sprague in Lincoln Count}'. Two 

 specimens were obtained. 



47. Galeoscoptes carolinensis. Catbird. — This bird is common in 

 Whitman County, and we found it in the southeastern part of Lincoln 

 County at Crab Creek. Nowhere beyond here, however, i. e., to the north 

 or west, did we meet with it. 



48. Salpinctes obsoletus. Rock Wren. — This wren is common 

 throughout the length of the Grand Coulee, but it almost confines 

 itself to the slopes of talus along the bases of the walls. It occurs 

 also in all of the ' scab-land ' country where there is a great deal of bare 

 rock forming low walls and projecting in rugged irregular masses. It 

 is never to be found on a level open country. Even in the Coulee it 

 seldom ventures far out onto the flat floor of the canon, invariably asso- 

 ciating itself only with rocky places. 



49. Cistothorus palustris plesius. Western Marsh Wren. — ^ Rather 

 common in some of the marshes of the Grand Coulee. Although the 

 writer has no material at hand for other localities for comparison, there 

 is probably no doubt of the identification here given. 



50. Parus atricapillus occidentalis. Oregon Chickadee. — Found 

 common along Crab Creek in Lincoln County, but not met with in the 

 Coulee countrv. 



