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caiion a short distance, was flushed again and flew down the 

 caiion far out of gunshot. 



Oberholser (1904, p. 191) has recorded a specimen of Biido 

 V. occidental is from Austin, Nevada. The American Ornitholo- 

 gists' Union Committee (1910, p. 175) has referred occidentalis 

 to pallescens, the range of which is said to include all of the 

 Great Basin region. 



Speotyto cunicularia hypogaea (Bonaparte) 

 Burrowing Owl 



Seen between "Winnemucca and Amos, at Quinn River Cross- 

 ing, and at Thousand Creek. On one occasion we saw one chased 

 by three avocets, and on another by two western kingbirds. They 

 were rather shy — seemingl}^ they had good reason to be ! 



A nest was found at Thousand Creek in an abandoned badger 

 hole. Seven young were seen near the mouth of the burrow. 

 They came out just at sunset, and while they were disporting 

 themselves the parents would sit on a nearby fence or sagebush 

 and give the alarm if anything suspicious appeared. One of the 

 youngsters, too, seemed to act in the capacity of sentinel, and 

 was always the last one to re-enter the hole. By the middle of 

 July the young owls had grown as large as the parents, and 

 M^ere able to fly fairly well. At no time were they observed very 

 far from the nesting site. 



Ceryle alcyon (Linnaeus) 



Belted Kingfisher 



A single individual was observed on y fence-post near the 

 Humboldt River at Winnemucca. 



Colaptes cafer coUaris Vigors 



Red-shafted Flicker 



Distribution. — The flicker occurred commonly throughout the 

 region, apparently being as much at home on the summit of 

 Duffer Peak (9400 feet), as at Quinn River Crossing (4100 feet). 

 Ridgway (1877, p. 555) found the species to prefer the deciduous 

 trees of the lower valleys, but in our experience it w^as about 



