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literature of the subject. In January of the present year (anted, p. 
58), Mr. Ruthven Deane first added something to the meagre 
knowledge we then possessed, giving the experiences of Mr. G. H. 
Ragsdale with the species in Texas. Mr. Ragsdale, it appears, took 
three specimens, all of which were preserved, and was shown a nest 
with one egg, said to be of a Vireo with a black head, but not thor- 
oughly identified. 
Mr. Deane’s and Mr. Brewster’s articles throw much light upon 
the history of a hitherto little-known species, but one which will 
probably soon become common in collections ; and the plate now 
given will, we are sure, be appreciated by our readers as timely and 
acceptable. 
A PARTIAL LIST OF THE BIRDS OF FORT KLAMATH, 
OREGON, COLLECTED BY LIEUTENANT WILLIS WIT- 
TICH, U. S. A., WITH ANNOTATIONS AND ADDITIONS 
BY THE COLLECTOR. 
BY EDGAR A. MEARNS. 
(i Concluded from p. 166 .) 
40. Picicorvus columbianus ( Wilson). Clarke’s Nutcracker. — 
No. 29, 9, June, 1875 ; No. 30, $ ad., 1876. The first specimen, doubt- 
less a young bird, has a faint suffusion of brownish laid over the ash of 
the dorsal surface, and the bill is much shorter and more convex. Quite 
common as a resident. Mrs. Wittich writes that they sometimes come 
about the officers’ quarters, and keep around the kitchens. 
41. Pica melanoleuca hudsonica (Sabine). American Mag- 
pie. — No. 80, 9 ad., 1878; No. 86, £ ad., 1878. A common species. 
Breeds. Lieutenant Wittich furnishes the following notes on its breeding : 
“On May 12, 1878, while on the plain opposite the post, about 31- 
miles out, and near the edge of timber, I found, in a thorny bush, 
or low tree, a Magpie’s nest. Scrambling up through the stiff, wiry 
branches, I looked in and saw four young, without a vestige of either down 
or feathers, and mouths like — well, like young birds. The nest was 
built of twigs of a dead pine-tree that had been barked and whitened by 
weather. It was furnished with a kind of superstructure of the same ma- 
terial, forming a fine, rustic lattice-work above the nest, having an aperture 
in the top , large enough to admit the parent birds.” 
42. Cyanurus stelleri frontalis, Ridgway. California Moun- 
