30 Saunders, Birds of Gallatin. Co., Mont. [j^. 



Western Warbling Vireo, Audubon's Warbler, Rocky Mountain 

 Creeper, Mountain Chickadee, Ruby-crowned Kinglet, Western 

 Golden-crowned Kinglet, Townsend's Solitaire, Olive-backed 

 Thrush, Audubon's Hermit Thrush, and Western Robin. Most 

 of these species are more abundant about the edges of mountain 

 parks than in the forests themselves. The Pine Grosbeak occurs, 

 in the breeding season, only in the alpine forests and the Nut- 

 cracker is more abundant here than elsewhere. The Cassin's 

 Purple Finch, Western Tanager, and Ruby-crowned Kinglet show 

 a decided preference for forests of Douglas fir to that of any other 

 species, while the Golden-crowned Kinglet and Rocky Mountain 

 Creeper are most abundant in tall spruces along the canon 

 bottoms. 



In compiling this list I have consulted, I believe, all the previ- 

 ously published records from this region. The earliest records 

 are contained in government publications. One of these l con- 

 tains records of several species of shore birds from the vicinity of 

 Fort Ellis, of the occurrence of which there are at present no 

 other records, though the species are probably not uncommon 

 in the region. The most complete and most important work on 

 the birds of this region which has hitherto been published is ' The 

 Birds of South-Central Montana,' by C. W. Richmond and F. H. 

 Knowlton. - ' This list consists of 111 species, nearly all of which 

 were recorded from Gallatin County. The observations were 

 made in 1888 and 1890 and reveal a number of interesting and 

 important changes in the bird life of the region since that time. 

 In addition to this, two short articles on birds in the vicinity of 

 Sales ville, by A. M. Pyfer, appeared in 'The Oolgist.' 3 One of 

 these contains the only present record of the Snow Bunting in this 

 region. 



A number of valuable records in this list were obtained from an 

 examination of the collection of birds at the Montana Agricultural 

 College at Bozeman, most of which was made in Gallatin County. 



1 Report of a Reconnaissance from Carrol], Montana, to the Yellowstone Na- 

 tional Park and return. Gov't. Printing Office, 1876. Zoology, by George Bird 

 Grinnell. 



2 Auk, Vol. IX, 1894, pp. 298-308. 



» The Nesting of Clark's Nutcracker. The Oologist, Vol. XIV, 1897, pp. 100- 

 110, and Birds of Montana. The Oologist, Vol. XV, 1898, pp. 14, 15. 



