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just out of sympathy for the cormorants and herons, I suppose. Four-fifths of the 

 gulls were plainly immature, and the rest may have been non-breeders, too. I saw 

 no sign of their nesting anywhere on the sea. 



After collecting a few specimens and taking some pictures, we left the Island 

 at three-thirty, and proceeded on our arduous way towards the mainland, which 

 we reached at dark. We had to tie up to a bush several hundred yards off shore, 

 because of the shallowness, and wade to shore with our effects. Richardson and I 

 caught a train the next morning, and returned to Mecca, leaving Donham to take 

 care of his boat. 



In the preceding account I have mentioned only the water birds met with on 

 Salton Sea. The land birds found in the vicinity of Mecca will receive attention 

 in another paper. 



Berkeley, Calijot'uia. 



A FEW SUMMER BIRDS OF I,AKE CHEI.AN, WASHINGTON 



By J. H. BOWLES 



LAKE Chelan is situated in the north central part of the State of Washington, 

 and extends east and west almost entirely across the northern end of Chelan 

 County. At the western end of the lake is its main feeder, the Stehekin 

 River, which flows directly out of the Cascade Mountains. At the eastern end is 

 its outlet, the Chelan River, which flows thru a deep gorge into the Columbia River. 

 As the Chelan River is only four miles in length, the lake may be said to connect 

 the Cascade Mountains with the sandy wastes of the Columbia. Consequently a 

 great variety of country is encountered, as the lake is fifty-two miles in length and 

 four or five miles in width. At the eastern end one finds almost the typical sage 

 brush desert region, altho its altitude of 1500 feet has sprinkled it with what are 

 commonly called bull pines {Piniis jejfreyi) . At the western end the foothills of 

 the mountains are encountered, and consequently an entire change of physical sur- 

 roundings. Sand and sage brush have long since been left behind, and instead of 

 scattered pines we find walls of rock and forests of cedar, pine, hemlock 

 and Cottonwood. 



Such a country as is above described must necessarily attract a wide variety of 

 bird life, and this is indeed the case to a really astonishing degree. At times I 

 have almost imagined that a part of my old New England hunting grounds must 

 have suddenly extended over the 3000 miles that intervene ; for I have sat listening 

 to the well-remembered songs and call-notes of Red-eyed Vireos, Catbirds, King- 

 birds, Olive-backed Thrushes and Redstarts, all announcing their presence at the 

 same time. Intermingled, and almost in discord, so out of place did they seem, 

 would be heard the songs of the Louisiana Tanager and Bullock Oriole, as well as 

 many other notes of our typical far western bird life. 



I shall not attempt to give a full list of the birds of the region, merely men- 

 tioning such as seem to me to be of unusual interest for one reason or another, 

 more particularly the typical forms common to the eastern United States. 



The dates upon which these notes were taken cover the time from June 10 to 

 the 23rd, of the present year (1908), at which period it seems beyond any reasonable 

 doubt that all of the birds noted were breeding. 



