CHAPTER II. 

 THE BIRDS OF OREGON AND WASHINGTON. 



THERE are no birds that belong to Oregon 

 and Washington alone. All of the kinds found 

 here are to be seen up and down the coast this 

 side of the Rocky Mountains, and sometimes 

 beyond, within certain extended limits. By the 

 " Birds of Oregon and Washington," we mean 

 the birds that live in this section a part, or the 

 whole, of the year, These differ largely from 

 the birds east of the Mississippi River. There 

 are many species which are altogether unlike 

 the eastern birds ; while some remotely re- 

 semble their eastern relatives, and others are 

 so much like them that they seem, to an 

 untrained eye, to be exactly the same. But 

 in the varieties which so nearly correspond, 

 there is a difference, for the most part, in size, 



