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ground, and is distant from my window in the second story 10 feet. In 

 this we put smashed walnuts, whenever empty, all winter, day by day. 

 The Blue Jays get the most of them, but they fly away with the pieces, 

 and in doing so attract the attention of other birds to this source of con- 

 tinual supply. Our boarders, besides Blue Jays, Juncos and English 

 Sparrows, are European Tree Sparrow, Tufted Tit, Chickadee, White- 

 breasted Nuthatch, Downy Woodpecker, and Hairy Woodpecker These 

 have been visitors every year for a longer or shorter period. Red- 

 breasted Nuthatch was a boarder from November, '95 to about Jan. 20, 

 '96. Yellow-bellied Sapsucker is seldom seen to enter the box ; he pre- 

 fers the ham-bones, hung up in the same tree. Not entering, but attrac- 

 ted to the tree, are Golden-crested Kinglet (once the Ruby-crested in 

 January) Brown Creeper, Bluebird, Robin, Flicker, Bewick's Wren. 

 Also Cardinals (male and female) are among the boarders in cold 

 weather, and White-throated Sparrows in late snows in March. Snow, 

 of course, brings the greatest number, and on some days the tree looks 

 enchanted ; birds of all feathers, waiting their turn. 



Otto Widmann, Old Orchard, Mo. 



NOTES ON THE BIRDS OF OKANOGAN COUNTY, 



WASH. 



Since the appearance of other notes under this title in the September 

 •and November Bulletins, I prepared a brief, annotated list of the birds 

 of this region, which appeared in the Auk, April, 1897, ar >d was a l so 

 issued as Laboratory Bulletin, No. 6, Oberlin College. Reference to 

 this will make unnecessary in the present connection a review of the 

 commoner species and leave me to speak at random concerning a few 

 of the rarer sparrows and more noticeable warblers. 



Hepburn's Leucosticte, Leucosticte tefthrocotis Uttoralis. — The 

 breeding of this rare species was conjectural until I was so fortunate as 

 to encounter it on Wright's Peak during the summer of '96. We had 

 been encamped from August 5th to 8th on a shoulder of the mountain, at 

 an altitude of 8,000 feet, and I had caught several unsatisfactory glimp- 

 ses of this glacier-sprite, but it was not until early morning of the last 

 day, when we succumbed to the continual cold weather and retreated 

 from the mountains, that I saw the birds well. A pair were feeding full- 

 grown young, and as the restless youngsters flitted from pile to pile of the 

 projecting morainic knobs along the foot of the glacier, I could not but 



