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Of hawks, we saw several specimens ; the marsh 

 hawk, the cooper's hawk, the sharp-shinned hawk, the 

 sparrow hawk, and an occasional red-shouldered hawk. 

 Our old friends, the flickers, were here in goodly 

 numbers. 



The snowbirds nest in this region, and they were very 

 abundant. The rusty blackbird, catbird, chickadee, 

 kinglet, pine siskin, gambet, white-throated sparrow, 

 and tiny humming-bird, all find food here and an 

 environment suitable to their varied wants, and when 

 we left showed little signs of departing for a warmer 

 climate. 



One day, when I was lying behind some logs watch- 

 ing for bear, a very large flock of great crested fly- 

 catchers alighted upon a tree near my hiding-place. 

 Whether they saw me and wanted to see what manner 

 of being I was, I could not tell, but they flitted from 

 tree to tree, back and forth, in their swift flight for 

 over an hour, always in sight, and never staying upon 

 one tree for more than five minutes or so. Before they 

 left, reinforcements had reached them from several 

 directions, so that when they finally flew away their 

 flight was to the south and their numbers had been 

 more than doubled. No doubt, they were starting 

 upon their annual southern migration. 



Nearly all of the wading birds had left long before 

 our arrival, and many of these, like the yellow-leg, the 

 bull-headed plover, the golden plover, and the Wilson 



