gal Dawson, Birds of Okanogan Co., Wash. reel 
eggs on the roth of April. It was placed 60 feet high on a knob projecting 
from the face of a perpendicular cliff. The birds were arrant cowards and 
offered no remonstrance while their nest was being pillaged. 
40. Aquila chrysaétos. GOLDEN EaGLe.— Fairly common throughout 
the county. This Eagle is a familiar feature of our wildest mountain 
scenery, and is especially likely to turn up after one has killed a mountain 
goat. One pair breeds within 200 yards of a farmhouse near the 
Okanogan River. : 
41. Halizetus leucocephalus. BaLp EAGLE.— Comparatively rare. 
Only three or four individuals were noted during my stay. 
42. Falco mexicanus. PRAIRIE FALCON.— Next to the Sparrow Hawk, 
the commonest Raptor. One coulée in particular, which connected two 
large terrace tops or flats along the Columbia River, and whose walls 
were beetling cliffs towering a thousand feet high, sheltered half a dozen 
pairs of these Falcons. The favorite breeding site is some inaccessible 
niche in a perpendicular rock-wall, which faces some open situation. 
Except in places where they congregate for sport, the presence of these 
birds is likely to go unsuspected, until the screaming of the falconets 
betrays the nesting site. 
43. Falco columbarius. PiGEON HAwk.—One specimen shot. Prob- 
ably not uncommon. The relation of this bird to Richardson’s Merlin 
was not satisfactorily determined. 
44. Falco sparverius deserticolus. DEsERT SpaRRow Hawx.— 
Abundant on the lower foothills and in open situations. Less common 
in the mountains. 
45. Pandion haliaétus carolinensis. AMERICAN OspREy.— Common 
along the Columbia River and tributary streams. 
46. Asio wilsonianus. AMERICAN LONG-EARED OwL.— Two or three 
pairs will be found in any considerable swamp. Eggs were taken in April 
and in June. 
47. Bubo virginianus saturatus. WerSTERN HoRNED OwL. — These 
birds were seen only at the upper end of Lake Chelan. 
48. Speotyto cunicularia hypogea. BuRROwING OWL.— Not a char- 
acteristic bird, but still to be occasionally met with in the semi-arid and 
treeless portions at lower levels. 
49. Ceryle alcyon. BELTED KINGFISHER.— Not acommon bird, except 
on Lake Chelan where it winters. 
59. Dryobates villosus harrisii. IHARRIS’s WooDPECKER.— Not com- 
mon. 
51. Dryobates pubescens homorus. BATCHELDER’S WOODPECKER.— 
Materials are not at hand for the stricter determination of this sub- 
species. The bird is fairly common. 
52. Xenopicus albolarvatus. WHITE-HEADED WoopPECKER.— This 
bird was seen only twice. The last time it was found nesting at an altitude 
of 3000 feet. There appears to be nothing unusual about its nesting 
habits, except that in this instance the eggs were all dotted with pitch, 
