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in northwestern Washington. Specimens personally collected by 

 myself near Tacoma several years ago were identified by Mr. 

 Joseph Grinnell as typical sparverius. Also a specimen collected 

 by Mr. D. E. Brown on September 11, 1910, near his home at South 

 Tacoma, was identified by Mr. Oberholser as true F. s. sparverius. 

 These birds are common summer residents, but not often seen 

 during the winter months. I have never seen any birds in western 

 Washington that I believe could be referable to F. s. phalama, 

 and doubt if this subspecies often drifts over onto the west side of 

 the Cascade Mountains. 



Saw-whet Owl (Cryptoglaux acadica acadica). — Not recorded 

 in the Check-List as breeding in any of the Pacific coast States. 



Mr. D. E. Brown took a set of four eggs of this owl, together 

 with the parent bird, in the vicinity of North Yakima, Wash., on 

 April 12, 1909. This was in an old nest of the Red-shafted Flicker 

 (Colaptes cafer collaris), Mr. Brown having taken a set of the right- 

 ful owner from the same hole in 1908. 



Richardson's Owl (Cryptoglaux funerea richardsoni) . — Rec- 

 ords of this owl are sufficiently rare in the United States to be of 

 interest. Mr. D. E. Brown took a specimen near Bellingham, 

 Wash., on January 17, 1905. 



Ash-throated Flycatcher (Myiarchus cinerascens cineras- 

 cens). — Not recorded as breeding north of southern Washington. 

 On May 23, 1903, on the outskirts of North Yakima, Yakima 

 County, Wash., I watched one of these flycatchers building a nest 

 in an abandoned hole of the Red-shafted Flicker. Being unable 

 to wait for eggs, I examined the cavity and found that the fly- 

 catchers must have used the same site on the previous year, as an 

 old and heavy mass of cow hair made evident. 



These birds are exceedingly rare in Washington on the west side 

 of the Cascades, the only record I have being of a pair I saw at 

 Tacoma on May 21, 1905. These did not remain to breed. 



Magpie (Pica pica hudsonia). — Not recorded as occurring 

 west of the Cascades. The Magpie is a regular and not uncommon 

 winter visitor to the tide flats and prairies in the vicinity of Tacoma. 

 Occasionally I have seen as many as fifteen or twenty in a flock, 

 but usually not more than half a dozen are seen together. Beyond 

 a doubt they are voyagers over the mountains from their summer 

 home on the east side of the Cascades where they are very plentiful. 



