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over forty Buzzards collected there on neighboring trees and the 

 ground, all having come from the southwest, oft' over the meadow, 

 appearing in sight and coming straight tip the wind. The birds 

 uneartlied the carcass and held a great war-dance and pow-wow 

 over it. At another time, in the pine timber along the north 

 shore of my lake, I drove another skunk into a hole, by clubbing, 

 and stopped the hole up with sticks ; in a short time there were 

 several Buzzards investigating the cause of the outbreak, from 

 the trees about the spot. 



A box which had been leaning up by the side of my poultry 

 house was blown down, or tipped down by hens flying upon it, 

 and a chicken crushed under it, of which I knew nothing; but 

 noticing the Buzzards sitting about the place on the trees and 

 fence, I wondered what attracted them there, and soon after, 

 upon moving the box, I found the dead fowl beneath. There 

 was no other carrion present, to my knowledge, at the time. 



These facts, while all showing conclusively to my mind that 

 Buzzards do find the location of at least some of their food sup- 

 ply by means of a sense of smell as keen as that of a fox, yet it 

 does not preclude the possibility or the probability that they are 

 often guided or aided in location by a sight as keen as the sense 

 of smell seems to be. 



NOTES ON THE BIRDS OF FORT KLAMATH, 

 OREGON. 



BY DR. J. C. MERRILL, U. S. A. 



With remarks on certain species by William Breivster. 



^Continued frotn p. r^6.] 



Ceryle alcyon. Common in summer, several remaining tliroughout the 

 winter. 



Dryobates villosus harrisii. This was the most common species of 

 Woodpecker during autumn and winter, and at that season more often 

 found among aspens than were the others. This is the only place in the 

 West where I have found Jiarrisii to be more abundant than gaird?ieri. 

 About the middle of March and later, as the breeding season approached. 



