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and we saw but few specimens, but the others were abundant. 
The robin was formerly rare, but being a general favorite with 
the settlers it has been carefully protected and seems to be annu- 
ally increasing in numbers. The mountain mockingbird, famil- 
iarly known to the settlers as the “gray bird,” is said to have 
similarly increased, but through its depredations on the smaller 
` fruits—even the peach not escaping its ravages—it has become a 
proscribed race. The catbird we found as numerous in the thickets 
bordering the streams as we ever saw it in the East. The arctic 
bluebird is well known as a spring and autumn visitor, but seems 
to be most numerous in spring. The titlark (Anthus Ludovicia- 
nus) abounds at the same seasons, being first observed by us 
September 15th, though it probably breeds on the neighboring 
snowy summits of the Wahsatch Mountains. Of the Sylvicolide 
or wood-warblers, we collected about a dozen species. The 
Maryland yellow-throat, the summer yellowbird (Dendræca œs- 
tiva), and the yellow-breasted chat are probably commou summer 
residents in the valley; the Blackburnian, Audubon’s, the Nash- 
ville, the golden-crowned (Helminthophaga celata) Macgillivray’s 
and the black-capped flycatching warblers, are all doubtless more 
or less common at the same season in the adjoining mountains. 
Nearly ali were common in September in the vicinity of Ogden. 
The ruby-crowned kinglet became frequent about October 1st m 
the valley, as it had been previously in the mountains. The Amer 
ican ouzel (Cinclus Mexicana) was abundant along the mountain 
streams, and the rock wren was very numerous everywhere on 
the rocky declivities of the mountains about Ogden, above 
upper terrace of the valley. The black-capped chickadee (Pen 
atricapillus, var. septentrionalis) was an abundant inate 
the willow thickets bordering the Ogden and Weber Rivers, 
the reedy marshes were the favorite haunts of thousands of ea 
wrens (Cistothorus palustris). All the swallows disappea™ fe 
after our arrival; the most frequently observed species being G 
barn swallow, though the rough-winged and the violetein 
both frequently noticed during the first week of September. 
nests of the cliff swallow seen adhering to the cliffs, espec!: Z 
was also” 
and — 
species © 
Weber and Echo Caiions, indicated that this species 
abundant summer visitant. The red-eyed, warbling, 
vireos were all well represented and formed the only | 
their family we saw. The cedar bird, the loggerhead shrike, 
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