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Everywhere we found it the same unsuspecting, social character, 

 industriously caring for the wants of its younglings. It pre- 

 fers the bushes and smaller trees for its resorts, and like the 

 pine siskin, will frequently enter the camp in cpuest of morsels 

 of food. 



On August 24, the chipping sparrow was noted in flocks of 

 twenty-five to thirty, near the borders of the ranches in the 

 vicinity of the Station, probably preparatory to migration. 



567 b. SHUFELDT'S JUNCO, J unco hyemalis shufeldli 



Coale. 



This mountain form of the slate-colored junco is abundant 

 in the vicinity of Sin-yale-a-min Lake and on Mt. McDonald 

 to an altitude of 7,500 feet. It undoubtedly breeds in the 

 neighborhood, as several specimens were taken while carrying 

 food evidently for young birds. On one occasion the writer 

 was convinced of the existence of a nest of this junco near a 

 fallen log and adjacent brash., and searched closely for it, but 

 was unable to discover it. The rattling ditty of the junco 

 was heard regularly in the woods near Sin-yale-a-min Lake, a 

 performance cpiite similar to that of the chipping sparrow, 

 though uttered with more force and less rapid enunciation. 



The junco is common on the wooded ridges near the Sta- 

 tion, and undoubtedly breeds there. On June 20, a female was 

 observed carrying food, and chirping anxiously at our presence, 

 as if she had a nest or dependent young in the immediate 

 neighborhood, but search for the nest was unavailing. 



581b. MOUNTAIN SONG SPARROW, Melospiza fasciata 



montana Efensh. 



Common along the margins of Crow Creek. It was still in 

 song, in accordance with its usual habit of singing throughout 

 its entire summer residence. Several specimens were taken 

 in the coverts near the water. The song sparrow was not noted 

 at the foot of Flathead Lake, nor at the other lakes in the 

 Mission Range. 



The song sparrow was common in the brushy borders of the 

 lake near the Station; also in the shrubbery along Daphnia 

 Pond. Its melodious cadenzas were regularlv heard in suitable 

 surroundings, and specimens were frequently taken. 



