
THE FAUNA OF MONTANA TERRITORY. 19 
Western Lank (Sturnella neglecta). Found on every 
prairie throughout the Rocky Mountains. 
WESTERN GRACKLE ( Scolecophagus cyanocephalus). Com- 
mon in all marshy meadows of the Rocky Mountains, except 
at a very high elevation. 
Raven (Corvus carnivorus). A constant attendant at 
camp, especially when about to be broken up. 
Eastern Crow (O. Americanus). At Sun River, east 
of the Rocky Mountains, I saw several of this species, and 
noticed no peculiarities as to flocking, note, ete. 
Western Crow (C. caurinus). The first crows I saw 
west of the dividing ridge were a distant flock, at sixty 
miles, and again at a camp about twenty miles above the 
junction of Hell Gate with the Bitterroot River, where a 
flock of about one hundred flew over at dusk, probably to- 
wards a roosting place. Their gregariousness at that season 
(August 25th), and unusual noise, struck me as peculiar; 
and on other occasions farther down the valley I saw some, 
but most of them probably live near the settlements of the 
St. Mary’s Valley. 
At Coeur d'Alene Mission I again found large flocks of 
crows, and on comparing one with the plates and descrip- 
tions contained in the Natural History of Washington Terri- 
tory, I found it to agree with C. caurinus in the form of the 
bill, but to be intermediate between it and C. Americanus in 
size, though nearest the former. I am inclined to think it 
was caurinus, but, like several other Rocky Mountain speci- 
mens collected by me, larger than those of the same species 
from the coast. Its habits were different from those of C. 
Americanus, and as it occurs at the Dalles, it could easily 
cross the intervening country. It cannot, however, be much 
of a “fish-crow” in these mountains. 
CLankE's NurcRAckER (Picicorvus Columbianus). I 
found this bird from the first pine forests east of the Rocky 
Mountains entirely across, but more rare in the spruce for- 
ests, as it is in those west of the Cascade Mountains, evi- 
