172 Dawson, Birds of Okanogan Co., Wash. Aodl 
14. Clangula clangula americana. AMERICAN GOLDEN-EYE. — The 
Whistlers are the characteristic Ducks of this mountain county. This 
species is not so common as the next, the proportion being perhaps one 
to three. 
15. Clangula islandica. BARROW’s GOLDEN-EYE.—Every consider- 
able mountain pool is visited by a pair or more of these birds dur- 
ing the breeding season. In winter they keep to the open lakes and 
rivers without passing south. Surely there can be no sound more 
thrilling to the gunner’s ear than the clear whistling of this bird’s 
wings, and especially if a pair produce now a single tone and now an 
ever changing syncopation. 
16. Charitonetta albeola. BurrLE-HEAD.— Common, but of more 
sparing distribution than the two preceding. 
17. Oidemia deglandi. WHITE-WINGED ScCOTER.— Found on Wapato 
Lake, a small body of water near Lake Chelan, during December. 
18. Branta canadensis occidentalis. WHITE-CHEEKED GOOosE.— 
Distributed sparingly throughout the county, where it breeds, especially 
in the Okanogan Valley. Flocks of two or three hundred are said to 
have wintered at Wapato’s but they did not remain this year during 
snow-fall. 
1g. Rallus virginianus. VIRGINIA Rai_t.— Not common; breeds. 
20. Porzana carolina. Sora.— Not common; breeds. 
21. Fulica americana. AMERICAN Coot.— The inevitable accompani- 
ment of ‘cat-tails’. In passing along the road through Toat’s Coulée, 
one may see the Coots sitting on their nests, or cackling at play in any of 
the numerous water-filled kettle-holes. 
22. Phalaropus lobatus. NorRTHERN PHALAROPE.— One specimen was 
secured on Wapato Lake during the migrations. 
23. Gallinago delicata. WuILSON’s SNIPE.-— Only one bird was seen,— 
at Wapato’s. 
24. Tringa minutilla. Least SANpPIPER.—A flock of three was seen 
at the lower end of Wapato Lake, during the migrations. 
25. Totanus solitarius cinnamomeus. WESTERN SOLITARY SAND- 
PIPER.— Seen about large streams, notably at Stehekin, at the head of 
Lake Chelan, where it regularly breeds. 
26. Numenius longirostris. LOoNG-BILLED CuRLEw.— Not uncommon 
during migrations, but there is little land suitable for them. A few bred 
in the open country about Wapato’s, while one pair on the Okanogan, 
chose a nesting site near the stage road, where their incessant querulous 
cries were poured out against every passer-by. 
27. A®gialitis vocifera. KiLLDEER.— A few were seen in early spring 
at Wapato’s, but it is doubtful whether they lingered. 
28. Dendragapus obscurus fuliginosus. Soory GRrousE.— The spring 
bird of the lower foothills. They appear to move down from their winter 
home in the fir-trees of the higher slopes, during the last week in March. 
At this time, and indeed until after the breeding season, they are quite 
