214 THE OREGON SPORTSMAN 
EASTERN BIRDS COMING INTO OREGON 
very interesting data concerning the spread of some of the 
commoner HKastern birds into the Eastern part of Oregon. The 
early records do not show that the Cat-bird was a resident of this 
State. The first record which Mr, Jewett secured of this bird being 
in Oregon was August 11, 1906, at Sparta in Baker County. The 
birds seem gradually to be spreading out more through the State and 
coming over toward the west. In 1915 he saw one bird at Mt. Vernon 
in Grant County. One of these birds was also seen at Prairie City. 
The Cat-birds seem quite common this year in the vicinity of 
La Grande, where Mr. Jewett saw five or six. He also saw the birds 
in Wallowa County at Minam, Wallowa, Enterprise and Joseph. 
A still further western record is noted by Mr. Jewett, who eol- 
lected one of these birds September 3, 1916, at Pendleton, Oregon. 
He also saw two others. He knows of two broods of Cat-birds which 
were raised in that locality during the past season. 
Another very interesting record is the appearance of the bobolink 
in Eastern Oregon. Wm, L. Finley first saw this bird in Harney 
County in 1908. It was not there in an early day when Captain 
Bendire wrote his list of the birds about Camp Harney. For the past 
ten years they have been quite abundant in the meadows about 
Burns. Mr. Jewett has recorded the bobolink at John Day in Grant 
County. Also he saw two at Wallowa and two at Halfway in Baker 
County. 
M R. Stanley Jewett, of the Biological Survey, reports some 
EXTINCT BIRDS AND ANIMALS 
(From All Outdoors) 
have become extinct within the memory of persons now alive, 
according to Louis Agassiz Fuertes. Among those which have 
been utterly destroyed during the past seventy-five years are the 
passenger pigeon, the last specimen of which died in the Cincinnati 
Zoological Musum; the great auk, the Labrador duck, the Carolina 
parakeet, the Eskimo curlew, and a number of the macaws of the West 
Indies. The American buffalo, or bison, he regards as extinct in so 
far as its wild life is concerned; and he counts the prong-horned ante- 
lope as one of those plains inhabitants which is sure to go in the near 
future. e 
‘The extinction of the wood duck, he says, is seriously threatened. 
This is a tree-nesting species and reputed to be the most beautiful of 
the many American species of wild duck. The woodcock also is in 
danger, with many other shore birds that once were plentiful, even the 
well-known killdeer plover, or killdee, being on the list of doubtful 
survivors. 
To save the remnants of our wild life, Mr. Fuertes advocates wide- 
spread educational measures, the full support of the federal migratory 
bird law, the establishment of game and bird refuges, and whole- 
hearted public opinion to back up the protective measures now upon 
the statute books. 
M than twenty-five species of American birds and animals 
