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note how perfectly at home these fledgling ice-birds seemed. The wind 

 was blowing piercing cold and a mountain storm was brewing, but their 

 rich brown coats and rosy trimmings told of anything but discomfort and 

 fear. The parent birds appeared to forage at somewhat lower levels for 

 food, inasmuch as they repeatedly plunged over the mountain rim, and 

 were lost to sight in the depths below. 



Baird's Sparrow, Ammodramus bairdii, — On September 5th, 1895, I 

 found several of these birds on a piece of weedy bottom land where they 

 seemed to be feeding on a little wild bean. Like many of their kin they 

 kept close to the ground and flushed suddenly on a near approach, only 

 to plump down again at no great distance. I noted them as abundant in 

 this same situation on the gth of September, and they may have lingered 

 until the little beans were all gleaned from the ground. 



Their spring passage the following year was more rapid. On the 29th 

 of April, about a dozen were seen in an upland pasture mixing freely with 

 Zonotrichia leucophrys intermedia. Only one individual was noted in 

 the old haunt by the lake shore. 



Brewer's Sparrow, Spizella breiveri. — As I stepped forth from my lit- 

 tle enclosure on the edge of the Chelan townsite and before I had set my 

 ears to test the quality of sounds, I became aware of a "chirring ' from 

 the sagebrush to westward, of different proportions from the customary 

 trills of the Chipping Sparrows, so common there. Returning for my 

 glass, after careful skulking I crept close up on the little vocalist. His 

 strain was first a short chir-r-r of notes so rapid that it was impossible 

 for the ear to individualize them, and then a trill which, if heard separately, 

 would not attract attention in a chorus of Chipping Sparrows. When 

 carefully discriminated, however, one noticed the lighter, less emphatic 

 character. The bird kept low in the sage bushes and was with diffi- 

 culty secured. Nature could hardly have designed a plainer and more 

 inconspicuous nondescript if she had lain awake all night. 



Audubon's Warbler, Dendroica auduboni . — The commonest of the 

 Warblers in Okanogan county, although not found in the sage brush sec- 

 tions or wider valleys. This bird is a good mountaineer, and although I 

 saw it in June on the lake shore, where it was probably breeding at an 

 altitude of less than 1,000 'feet, it was noted in August at all levels 

 up to the glacier realm of 8,000 feet. It is undoubtedly the hardiest 

 bird of its genus. 



, McGillivray's Warbler, Geothiyfiis macgillivrayi. — A not uncom- 

 mon resident in the underbrush of hillside springs and draws. One song 

 heard reminded me strongly of that of a Dickcissel, though of course 



