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7. Oregon Ruffed Grouse, common. — The Sooty 

 tlrouse I do not appear to have heard right here, 

 but it was " booming" on our way to the lake, 

 June II. June i, on the West Huniptulipf-. a 

 parent Bo/iasa was seen with eight or ten very 

 down}' chicks, perhaps a couple of days old. 



8. Band-tailed Pigeon. — common in the cotton- 

 woods. 



9. Bald Ragle. — Two Bald Eagles were seen on 

 different days on, or near, a big spruce, in which 

 was what I took to be their nest. The tree stood 

 some rods back of the south-eastern shore on the 

 bottom. 



10. Belted Kingfisher. — Fairly common. 



11. Harris' Woodpecker. — Common. June 14, 

 saw one with a most pure and delicate pink in- 

 stead of a red nuchal band. 



12. Northwestern Flicker. — One. 



13. Rufous Hummingbird (not named in my 

 journal, though). — A number of Hummers were 

 heard. This species, being much the most abun- 

 dant on this coast, deserves a places in these 

 notes. 



14. Allen's Hummingbird. — Saw one on the 

 shore, June 13. 



15. Western Wood Perwee.— Common. 



16. Western Flycatcher. — Common. 



17. Streaked Horned Lark. — A pair seen at the 

 clearing by my companion, June 12. 



18. Steller's Jav. — Common. As stated in The 

 Auk (Vol. IX, p'. 355), I think the Blue-fronted 

 Jay the more common race in this region. [In Dr. 

 Cones' edition of "The History of the Lewis and 

 Clark Expedition " (Vol. Ill, p. 1292), under date 

 Fort Clatsop, Oregon, January 31, 1806, is the fol- 

 lowing interesting statement: " The lilue-crested 

 Corvus \^Cyanocttta sielleril has already V)egun to 

 build its nest; the nest is formed of small sticks, 

 usually in a pine tree."] 



19. Oregon Jay. — Common. 



20. American Raven — Occasionally seen. 



21. Northwest Crow. — Fairly common. 



22. American Crossbill. — Common. 



23. Oregon Junco. — Common. 



24. Rusty Song Sparrow. — Common. 



25. (?) Rough-winged Swallow. — A brown Swal- 

 low was seen hawking over a little bay, June 14. 

 I have taken this Swallow on Grav's Harbor. 



26. Warbler Vireo. — Common in underwoods. 



27. (?) Yellow Warbler. — One probably seen, 

 June 12. This Warbler is probably fairly common 

 here. The song of this species bears a strong re- 

 semblance to that of the I'ileolated, but is a weak 

 and thin one compared to that. Both the 

 Lutescent and Audubon's Warblers should be 

 found here. 



28. (?) McGillivray's Warbler. — A Warbler seen, 

 June 13, may have been a hj'brid of this species 

 and the Yellow Warbler. 



29. Pileolated Warbler. — Common. The male's 

 slr(jng, loud song and ])riglit-yellow breast 

 make this one of the most conspicuous of the 

 small summer-birds of the forest. [It arrives on 

 the Humptulips about the last of April.] 



30. Western Winter Wren. — Common. [At 

 Hoquiam, May 5, 1892, I .saw one fly from the 

 ground uj) into a large spruce. It finally lit on a 

 long, dead limb, forty feet up, sidled and flitted 

 nearly to its en<l, and, by a little hole, entered the 

 bottom side of a large rounded mass ofmossthere. 

 I believe this was, or had been, used as a nest, for 

 the bird seemed to feel at home. As it was even- 



ing and I left early next morning I was not able 

 to solve the mystery. Previously I had never seen 

 this Wren higher than a few feet from the ground. 

 iMay 29, 1S91, not far from Steven's Prairie, I saw 

 two' families of these Wrens. P'ach pair had three 

 young Inrds, I think, whose bills were noticeably 

 yellow and baby-like-wide; all could fly, but 

 peeped for food.] 



31. Chestnut-backed Chickadee.— Common. 



32. Western Golden-crowned Kinglet. — A flock 

 seen on the river. (Probably others heard.) 



33. Russet-backed Thrush. — Very common. 

 Abundant in the river-bottom; the air ringing, in 

 the late afternoon, with its fine song and plaintive 

 call. [All the brown Thrushes I shot on the coast 

 about Gray's Harbor were T. ustiilatus. At South 

 Bend. Feb. 10, 1892, saw a Thrush with spotted 

 breast in a patch of salmon berry bushes, which 

 was either the Russet-backed or the Dwarf Hermit, 

 probably. T. aonalasclikae'x?, considered a "com- 

 mon summer resident at Beaverton, Oregon, by 

 Mr. Anthony; "not common" in British Colum- 

 bia, by Mr. Fannin (see Belding's "Land Birds," 

 p. 254). It was probably present at Quiniault 

 Lake.] 



34. Western Robin. — Fairly common. 



35. Varied Thrush. — Common. 



R. H. Lawrence. 

 Los Angeles, Cal. 



Nesting of the Blue-tuinged 

 Warbler. 



( Helmiiithophila pijiiis.) 



THIS beautiful and interesting little 

 Warbler is much commoner as a 

 summer resident in South-eastern 

 Pennsylvania than is generally 

 known. Our oldest and most experi- 

 enced local Oologists have not given it the 

 prominence and attention the Worm-eating 

 \Hebninthopliila vermivorus) and the Ken- 

 tucky Warbler {Geothlypis formosa) have 

 received. To Mr. Lsaac S. Reiff belongs 

 the honor of having first discovered its nest 

 and eggs in this section. Mr. ReifF has 

 taken six nests, four containing eggs, in 

 the counties of Bucks and Montgomery. 

 The first .set was taken June 16, 1877 (see 

 "O. and O.," Vol. XIII, No. i). To 

 whom the credit belong of having first found 

 it breeding in Chester county I am unable 

 to determine, but up to 1890 at least eight 

 nests have been found by Messrs. Hall, 

 Jackson, Ladd and Norris, five of which 

 contained eggs. The topography of 

 Tredyffrin Twp. appears to be particularly 

 well adapted to the habits of this species. 

 The grassy and brambly borders of swampy 

 thickets of the Chester Valley and the 

 breezy upland "clearings" of the South 



