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SOME BIRDS OF CENTRAL OREGON 



By ALEX WALKER 



WITH MAP AND ONE PHOTO 



THE BASIS of this paper consists of notes and specimens collected during 

 three trips to this region. In 1913, accompanied by my father and a 

 friend, Max Short, I made a five weeks camping trip, travelling with 

 team and wagon. We left The Dalles on May 15, and drove up the Columbia 

 River to the mouth of the Deschutes, then south through Sherman County to 

 Madras, from Madras to Silver Lake by way of Redmond and Bend, through 

 the Deschutes National Forest 

 reserve of Crook* and north- 

 eastern Klamath counties. The 

 return was made by way of the 

 Paulina Mountains and Prine- 

 ville to Madras, from which 

 place a side trip was made to 

 Sisters before driving to The 

 Dalles through Warm Springs 

 Indian Reservation, Mutton 

 Mountains and Tygh Valley. 



During 1914 I visited the 

 mouth of the Deschutes River, 

 from July 24 to August 8 in- 

 clusive, for the purpose of col- 

 lecting birds and mammals for 

 the Oregon Fish and Game 

 Commission. The State Biolog- 

 ical Survey has been conducted 

 under the direction of William 

 L. Finley, State Biologist, who 

 has been working under the 

 supervision of the Bureau of 

 Biological Survey, United 

 States Department of Agricul- 

 ture. For a few days Stanley 

 G. Jewett, then with the State 

 Fish and Game Commission, M. E 

 Shelton of the State University 



£>cup** 



Fig. 48. Sketch-map of central Oregon. 



Peck of Willamette University, and Alfred 

 were with me at the mouth of the Deschutes. 

 On the third trip I was in the field continually from April 1 to June 1 for 

 the Fish and Game Commission in company with Mr. Jewett who was then col- 

 lecting for the U. S. Biological Survey. Part of the time we were accompanied 

 by Mr. F. E. Garlough. On this trip we collected at the mouth of Willow 

 Creek in Gilliam County ; at Millers near the mouth of the Deschutes in Sher- 

 man and Wasco counties; at Maupin on the Deschutes in Wasco County; and 

 on the Warm Springs Indian Reservation far enough into the mountains to se- 



*Since part of these notes were made, Crook County has 

 counties, the northern portion being- called Jefferson County. 



been divided 



