762 Merrill tut Birds of Fort Klamath, Oregon. [October 



and saw a bird at the head of Fort Creek that was certainly [a Dendroica, 

 and doubtless one of these three species, but it kept in the tops of the 

 highest firs and pines and I was unable to shoot it; the song was some- 

 thing like that of a Chipping Sparrow, but harsher and more run together. 



Geothlypis macgillivrayi. — First seen May 11, and soon became abun- 

 dant, many remaining to breed. The song of the male is characteristic 

 and rather sweet, unlike that of G. Philadelphia and yet having a certain 

 resemblance to it. 



Geothlypis trichas occidentalis. — The habits of the Western Yellow- 

 throat in this vicinity, as regards its favorite resorts, are quite unlike 

 what I have elsewhere observed. Though the numerous streams offer it 

 the same rank undergrowth along their swampy edges that it in other 

 places pi-efers, yet it is rarely seen in such situations. A few are found 

 among the low willows growing in the marsh, but its favorite haunt, and 

 one in which it is very common, is among the tules in company with 

 Marsh Wrens and Yellow-headed Blackbirds. During the nesting season 

 the males frequently mount a few feet in the air, and exactly imitate the 

 eccentric movements of the Yellow-breasted Chat. 



Sylvania pusilla pileolata. — Several seen May 6, and extremely com- 

 mon a few days later. Breeds in considerable numbers in the swampy 

 willow thickets along Wood River and Fort Creek, the loud, sharp notes of 

 the males indicating their abundance. 



Anthus pensilvanicus. — Common during the migrations. 



Cinclus mexicanus. — Not uncommon resident. 



Troglodytes aedon parkmanii. — Common, but less so than I have 

 found it in many parts of the West. [The single specimen in the Klamath 

 collection must apparently be referred to -parkmanii ?is now restricted, al- 

 though its coloring is darker and browner than in T. aedon instead of 

 " lighter or more tawny" as should be the case withtj'pical /rtr^wrt««, 

 according to Mr. Allen*.— W. B.] 



Troglodytes hiemalis pacificus. — Common during autumn, and in 

 winter until the commencement of the January storms, the snow soon 

 covering its favorite brush piles and manzanita scrub, and probably 

 driving it south; but I did not detect it in the spring on its way north. 

 A pair were seen July 6 near the head of the east fork of the Des Chutes 

 River, at an altitude of about fifty-six hundred feet. [Dr. Merrill's speci- 

 mens are typical /ac//?c«5. — W. B.] 



Cistothorus palustris paludicola. — Very common in summer among 

 the tules in the marsh, and a few pass the winter in the same locality. 

 In August several pairs with young were found among the rank marsh 

 grass at the head of Diamond Lake at a height of over five thousand feet. 

 The breeding habits here are much as they are in the East; the nests 

 were usually among tules, more rarely among flags. 



Certhia familiaris occidentalis. — :In no part of the West have I found 

 the Creeper so abundant as at Fort Klamath. During the winter every 

 troop of Mountain Titmice, Kinglets, and Pygmy Nuthatches, and these 



* See the Auk, Vol. V, p. 164. 



