HISTORY OF OREGON ORNITHOLOGY [55] 



Since 1891, Dr. Albert Gregory Prill has been publishing notes from 

 Linn County and other parts of the State. He has contributed several 

 new species to the Oregon list. His collection at Scio and his many nest- 

 ing records have been available in compiling the present distributional 

 data. Many of his specimens are deposited in the United States National 

 Museum at Washington, at the California Academy of Sciences, and at 

 the University of Oregon. 



RECENT ORNITHOLOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS 



IN 1902., WILLIAM LOVELL FINLEY'S first notes on Oregon birds appeared. 

 His photographic studies of the birds on Three Arch Rocks, Lower 

 Klamath Lake, and Malheur Lake, published in numerous books and 

 magazine articles some of them in collaboration with Herman Theodore 

 Bohlman have become classics in American ornithological literature. As 

 a direct result of these studies all three areas mentioned have been set 

 aside as Federal bird refuges. The work has been continued by both Mr. 

 and Mrs. Finley until now their wildlife pictures and stories are familiar 

 throughout this country and Canada. 



Alex Walker collected for years in Tillamook County and at various 

 places in eastern Oregon for the Oregon Game Commission, during the 

 time Finley was State game warden, and for the Cleveland [Ohio] Mu- 

 seum of Natural History. He has published a number of short articles, 

 and Dr. Harry Church Oberholser has published descriptions of several 

 new subspecies of birds that are based largely on his collections. 



Alfred Cooper Shelton, while at the University of Oregon, worked out 

 a distributional list of the birds of west-central Oregon, based largely on 

 his own field work in Lane County. This was published in 1917 and is 

 one of the outstanding works on Oregon birds to date. 



George Willett's notes on his experiences and observations at Malheur 

 Lake appeared in 1919. These included important nesting data that have 

 filled in many missing details regarding this area. 



Since that time many short notes on Oregon birds have appeared from 

 various sources, but no papers of outstanding importance have been 

 printed. 



Since 192.5, John Claude Braly, an active bird collector throughout 

 Oregon, has contributed much information on nesting dates. These notes 

 are included in the present account for the proper species. They have 

 been taken from his field notes and egg catalog, since few of the data 

 have been published. 



Edward Samuel Currier, who has been collecting in Oregon since 1903, 

 has accumulated much information on Oregon birds, particularly on 

 nesting dates, that has been available for the present work. 



Finley, when State game warden, employed Jewett, beginning July i, 

 1912., to build up a State collection of birds and mammals. Olaus Johan 



