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teasing. All at once a large snake 

 which was laying on top of a limb of 

 the tree, began to hiss and show his 

 tongue. This snake closely resembled 

 the color of the tree and was in plain 

 view to me all the time, until the 

 Chickadee disturbed it but the snake 

 could not be seen as it blended in 

 with the bark of the large elm. 

 Ramon Graham, 

 Texas Bird Notes, 1923. 



Ft. Worth, Texas. 



GEORGE M. SUTTON 



George Miksch Sutton, of the Car- 

 negie Museum, who has recently been 

 put in charge of the Series of Groups 

 illustrative of Ornithology of that in- 

 stitution, left August 17th for a canoe 

 trip to James Bay for the purpose of 

 collecting specimens for an illustrative 

 life group of the Blue Goose. He is 

 to be congratulated on so splendid an 

 outing. 



R. M. Barnes. 



A MONTANA LIST 



I am sending a list of birds observed 

 by me on a two day stay at a small 

 lake near here. These birds, 62 

 species in all, were noted either at the 

 lake or within a radius of one mile. 

 This is a particularly favorable spot 

 as a bird nesting ground. I found 

 several species that I haven't found 

 nesting in Montana before. 



This is a land-locked lake, and for 

 some reason some years ago the 

 water raised about eight feet flooding 

 back into the timber and killing it. 

 Many of the trees are now broken off 

 a few feet above the water, so it has 

 made some rather peculiar nesting 

 sites. 



I found the Robin and Kingbird 



nests on top of sticks standing in 

 water. Northern Hairy Woodpecker, 

 Trail and Western Flycatcher and 

 White-bellied Swallows by the hun- 

 dreds. 



1 saw one very curious nest of a 

 Kingbird. One side of a stub had 

 been broken off with a Woodpecker 

 cavity in it and the Kingbirds had 

 built in the cavity about three feet 

 above the water. 1 also found a Hol- 

 boell's Grebe nest on a tree that had 

 fallen into the water. 



These birds were observed at 

 Blanchard Lake from May 28th to 

 June 8, 1923. 



O. O. U. Nos. 2, 5, 6, 7, 53, 77, 131, 

 132, 140, 141. 149, 152. 153, 166, 214, 

 221, 224, 229, 263, 273, 300, 332, 333, 

 334, 337, 360, 370, 373h, 375, 379, 390, 

 393a. 401, 401a, 402a, 404, 405a, 420a, 

 422, 464, 466a, 491, 497, 498, 510, 515, 

 560, 567f, 607, 614, 616, 619, 627, 652, 

 656, 675a, 681a, 687, 735a, 754, 761. 

 Harry S. Wilson, 

 Columbia Falls, Montana. 



G. A. ABBOTT 



A note from Gerald A. Abbott says 

 that he is leaving for Port Allegany, 

 Pennsylvania, and continues "For the 

 first time since the World War, we 

 will be living among our own effects 

 and my oological collection will be 

 unpacked." 



We congratulate G. A. on finally 

 concluding to settle down, even if he 

 does not take Horace Greeley's ad- 

 vice "and go West." 



R. M. Barnes. 



