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near the surf. Nests were found in the thickest shrubs, that were 
probably of the present race, proving that they are resident. 
As specimens in fresh fall plumage were needed for comparison 
with the Lower California birds I forwarded a skin to Mr. R. 
Ridgway who writes me: “A specimen of the same sex of ZH. 
Leconte from the Mojave River, California, has a shorter wing and 
very much \onger tail than your bird.” 
A comparison of my peninsula birds with a small and unsatis- 
factory series of typical HY. /econtez before me, shows the latter to 
hhave a slightly longer tail (average), though the wing and other 
‘measurements are the same. An immature specimen from the 
collection of Mr. F. Stephens, taken fifteen miles inland from 
Point Lobos, Sonora, Mexico, Aug. 19, 1884, is just assuming 
the fall plumage, which is considerably paler than my Lower 
‘California specimens, though darker than any true /econtez I have 
examined. 
AY JARI TIO VOUS ESE OW) ANels, IIIRIDS Oe 
OKANOGAN COUNTY, WASHINGTON. 
BY WILLIAM LEON DAWSON. 
Any list of the birds of this region would be unintelligible 
‘without a brief survey of the topography and physical conditions. 
Okanogan County, with an area almost equal to that of the State 
‘of New Jersey (being slightly under 7000 square miles), is pre- 
‘eminently a mountain county. ‘The only really level spots in it 
-are the narrow terraces, or benches, which mark former high 
levels of the Columbia and Okanogan Rivers, with their tribu- 
taries. The rest is mountains, low and grass-clad, with scattering 
pines along the north bank of the Columbia River, which bounds 
the county on the south; higher and well-timbered in the eastern 
and central portions; high and rugged in the extreme, with 
abounding glaciers, in the western part. The drainage is effected 
principally by five rivers: Wenatchee, Entiat, Chelan, Methow, 
