THE OOLOGIST 



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followed up the little creek, through 

 a narrow winding valley to a wide 

 beaver dam, and caught four dozen 

 small trout. They have not long 

 finished spawning and are thin and 

 poor. The balance of the days was 

 spent wading through the willow bot- 

 tom, with its innumerable sloughs and 

 beaver dams. A brood of half grown 

 Green-wing Teal (Nettion carolinese) 

 were seen flapping over the weedy 

 surface of a beaver dam and three 

 Barrows Golden-eye were flushed in 

 the same pond. These were non- 

 breeding females, the young of last 

 year. A specimen collected had 

 begun to moult and the brownish 

 black bill showed a few traces of the 

 chrome yellow of the adult female. 



The willows were swarming with 

 birds; Yellow-throats (Geothlypis pes- 

 trichas arizela) are here in great 

 number, much more common than the 

 Yellow Warblers. 



The following species were seen 

 close to the camp and were all com- 

 mon, with the exception of Pileated 

 Warblers, Sandhill Crane, Sora and 

 Western Red-tail. 



Mallard, (Anas platyrhynchos) ; 

 Green-wing Teal, (Nettion carolinese) ; 

 Barrows Golden-eye, (Clangula island- 

 ica) ; Spotted Sandpiper, Actites macu- 

 larius) ; Sora, (Porzana Carolina) ; 

 Sandhill Crane, (Grus mexicana) ; 

 Western Red-tail, (Buteo borealis 

 calurus) ; Desert Sparrow Hawk, 

 (Falco sparverius phalaena) ; 

 MacFarlanes Screech Owl, (Otus asio 

 macfarlanei) ; Rocky Mountain Hairy 

 Woodpecker, (Dryobates vellosa mont- 

 icola) ; Red-naped Sapsucker, (Spyrap- 

 hicus varius nuchalis); Red-shafted 

 Flicker, (Colaptes cafer collaris); Al- 

 den Flycatcher, (Empidonax trailli al- 

 norum) ; Olive-sided Flycatcher, (Nut- 

 tallornis borealis); Hammonds Fly- 

 catcher, (Empidonax hammondi) ; 

 Kingbird, (Tyrannus tyrannus) ; Belt- 



ed Kingfisher, (Ceryle alcyon) ; Calli- 

 Hummingbird, (Stellula calliope); 

 Rafous Hummingbird, (Selasphorus 

 rufus); Brewers Blacgbird, (Ezphagas 

 cyanocephalus) ; Northwestern Red- 

 wing, (Agelains phoeniceus cauri- 

 nus); Western Meadowlark, (Sturnel- 

 la neglecta) ; Clarks Nutcracker, (Nu- 

 cifraga columbiana) ; Western Crow, 

 (Coruus brachyrynchos hesperis) ; 

 Western Vesper Sparrow, (Poorcetes 

 gramineus confinis); Sooty Song Spar- 

 row, (Melospiza melodia rufina) ; Tree 

 Swallow, (Iridoprocne b i c o 1 o r ) ; 

 Rough-winged Swallow, (Stelgidop- 

 teryx serrepennis) ; Barn Swallow, 

 (Herundo erythrogastra) ; Cliff Swal- 

 low, (Petrochelidon lunifrons luni- 

 frons); Western Warbling Vireo, 

 (Vireosylva gilva swainsoni) ; West- 

 ern Tanager (Piranga ludoviciana) ; 

 Alaska Yellow Warbler, (Dendroica 

 aestiva rubiginosus) ; Pacific Yellow- 

 throat, (Geothlypis trechas arizela) ; 

 Pileolated Warbler, (Wilsonia pusilla 

 pileolata) ; Townsend Solitaire, (My- 

 adestes townsendi) ; Willow Thrush, 

 Hylocichla fuscesens salicicola) ; 

 Olive-backed Thrush, (Hylocichla us- 

 tulata swainsoni) ; Western Robin, 

 (Planesticus migratorius Propiquus) ; 

 Mountain Bluebird, (Sialia curru- 

 coides). 



June 14. Our bear hide had dried 

 quickly in the hot sun and we were 

 able to leave this morning about ten 

 o'clock. We traveled about forty 

 miles to Nicola Lake and camped on 

 the Indian reserve at the mouth of 

 Quilchenan Creek. Nicola Lake is 

 about eighteen miles long and two 

 miles wide, the hills surrounding the 

 lake are bare for the most part, but 

 there is a thick forest of cottonwoods 

 along part of the shore. There is some 

 marsh at the south end. We stopped 

 at one place to watch a Holboells 

 Grebe, setting on her nest in plain 

 view from the road. She called loud- 



