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41. Western Chipping Sparrow, 

 2, n-4, both in junipers. 



42. Oregon Junco. Bird surprised 

 with straw in beak on Juniper Butte. 



43. Western Sage Sparrow, 2, n-3. 

 Three is all these birds lay. Pull 

 sets from April 20 to May 15th. 



44. Rusty Songsparrow, along water 

 ways. 



45. Pine Siskin, in timber fringe. 



46. Oregon Towhee, n-4, one set of 

 4 eggs, taken at the foot of a sage 

 brush and about twenty feet from a 

 water hole. 



47. Black-headed Grosbeak, seen 

 first in shrubbery at the foot of cliffs. 



48. Cliff Swallow. 



49. Barn Swallow. 



50. California Shrike, 2, n-7, n-6. To 

 my opinion a bird whose beneficial 

 qualities far outweigh his harmful 

 qualities. I saw no evidence of mur- 

 der on his part and as they were 

 plentiful I had many opportunities 

 to study him. He killed more grass- 

 hoppers and impaled them (or those 

 he didn't eat up on the spot) than 

 any other insectivorous bird I ob- 

 served during the summer. 



51. Yellow Warbler, nested in wil- 

 lows along the watercourses. 



52. Nevada Sage Thrasher, 2, n-4, 

 n-3, n-5, a typical sage land bird. I 

 never see him mentioned in any pub- 

 lication. Have any of the Oologist's 

 readers an acquaintanceship with this 

 bird? 



53. Rock Wren. 



54. Canyon Wren. 



55. Parkman's Wren. 



56. Oregon Chickadee. 



57. Western Robin, n-5, one egg un- 

 fortunately broken in preparing. 

 First set of five I have ever found. 



58. Western Bluebird, n-6. 



59. House Finch. 



60. American Dipper, fairly common 

 along the watercourses. A more in- 

 teresting bird I never watched. His 



mastery over the water was simply 

 marvelous. 



61. Mt. Chickadee, found in fringe 

 of timber. 



62. Ruby-crowned Kinglet, found 

 along the river and one noted as I 

 passed through mountains. 



63. Great Blue Heron, noted fishing 

 along the waterways. 



64. American Sparrowhawk, 1-4, a 

 very beautiful set found in the cavity 

 of a live juniper the entrance, being 

 four feet from the ground. 



65. Tree Duck. Mr. Allen reported 

 two pair as nesting near his place on 

 the Metolius River. 



66. Duck Hawk. The old and four 

 young found in Crooked R. Canyon 

 about the middle of July. 



67. Sharp-shinned Hawk, 2-3 in 

 junipers. Similar to Red-tail. 



L. R. Howsley, 

 The Dalles, Ore. 



A Rare Sight 

 I had thes pleasure of observing a 

 very unusual sight this morning (Oc- 

 tober 24, 1917) at 7:45 as I was going 

 to work. I saw thirty-five Vultures in 

 one flock. They were possibly two 

 hundred feet high and I could not say 

 positive whether they were the Tur- 

 key Vulture or Black Vulture, but am 

 much inclined to think they were the 

 Turkey. I think this will exceed the 

 combined number of individual Vul- 

 tures I have observed for the last two 

 years. In former years I usually found 

 four to six nests every season, but the 

 last two years I have not found or 

 heard of any being found near here. 

 C. B. Vandercook, 



Odin, 111. 



Goldfinches Wanted 

 Rev. P. B. Peabody, of Blue Rapids, 

 Ks., wants any of our readers in the 

 Rocky Mountain region that have 

 Goldfinches breeding within their 

 neighborhood to communicate with 

 him. 



