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PIPILO OREGONA. 

 The Ground Robin. 



This bird, so like the eastern &quot; towhee bunting,&quot; we saw very frequently after leaving the 

 Sacramento valley. It seemed to become more abundant as we progressed toward the 

 Columbia, and on the upper Des Chutes, and on the slopes of the Cascades it was as common 

 as the P. erythrophthalmus in the wood lots at home. In its habits it resembles its eastern 

 representative as closely as in its plumage. 



PIPILO FUSCA. 

 The Canon Finch. 



Very common in the Sacramento valley, where it frequents the banks of streams and river 

 bottoms,, scratching about in the leaves under the bushes, as our other ground finches delight to 

 do. This habit, as well as its long tail and jerking flight from one clump of bushes to the 

 centre of another, indicated to me its affinities, though the bird was a stranger to me, and was 

 almost entirely silent. 



On the shores of upper Klamath lake, upon one occasion I saw what I supposed to be another 

 species of Pipilo, but could not secure a specimen. In my notes of August 15th I made the 

 entry : &quot; Saw finch, size arid habits of towhee bunting ; ground color, lilac, with bars of white 

 on wings and tail ; very shy ; did not hear its note.&quot; 



PICUS HARRISII. 

 Harris Woodpecker. 



Not uncommon in the wooded districts of northern California and Oregon. 



PICUS NUTTALLII. 

 Nuttall s Woodpecker. 

 Common in California. 



PICUS GAIRDNERII. 

 Gairdner s Woodpecker. 

 Very common in northern California and Oregon. 



PICUS WILLIAMSONII. 

 Williamson s Woodpecker. 



The only specimen which I saw of this new bird I killed in the pine forest bordering upper 

 Klamath lake on the east. Its habits are apparently very similar to those of P. Harrlsii and 

 P. Gairdnerii, which inhabit the same region. The individual procured, when first seen, was 

 creeping up the trunk of a large yellow pine, (P. brachyptera,) searching for insects in the 

 bark. Its cry was very like that of P. Harrisii. When shot, though killed, he retained his 

 hold of the bark of the branch on which he sat, as woodpeckers so often do, and I was compelled 

 to dislodge him with the contents of my second barrel, by which he was somewhat mutilated. 

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