Jan., 1916 
CHARACTERISTIC BIRDS OF THE DAKOTA PRAIRIES 
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The next night at half past eight when the red light was fading in the 
west, a Nelson Sparrow was still banging cymbals in the marsh, and two Great 
Blues and a Night Heron apparently starting on their nightly hunt flew over- 
head between the marsh and the largest of the lakes. 
Washington, D. C., May 23, 1915. 
NEW AND INTERESTING BIRD RECORDS FROM OREGON 
By STANLEY G. JEWETT 
F ROM April to September, 1915, the writer was engaged in field work for 
the United States Biological Survey. Work was conducted through the 
mountains and narrow valleys of east central and northeastern Oregon. 
Large collections of both birds and mammals were made, and extensive notes 
taken. The notes on the birds mentioned below are thought to be of sufficient 
importance to warrant publication at this time. 
Canachites franklini. Franklin Grouse. This species of grouse is fast disappear- 
ing from its range in northeastern Oregon. During the early part of September I hunted, 
unsuccessfully, for specimens along the headwaters of the Imnaha River in Wallowa 
County, where the birds were formerly common and are still known to occur. I heard 
several reports of the occurrence of Fool Hens, as they are commonly called, but not 
until September 9, did I establish an authentic record, on which date I found the tail 
and several feathers of an adult male where some predatory animal had killed it. The 
locality was about a mile up Cliff River above its junction with the Imnaha River in the 
Wallowa Mountains. This grouse is undoubtedly often seen by prospectors and sheep- 
herders in this section, as most of them are familiar with the Fool Hen as differing from 
the Richardson Grouse ( Dendragapus o. richardsoni) , which is common throughout the 
mountains of northeastern Oregon. 
Selasphorus platycercus. Broad-tailed Hummingbird. This species was noted but 
twice; first at Dayville, on June 27, where a fine adult male was seen hovering about 
some honeysuckle flowers on the hotel porch several times during the day. This bird 
was seen at such close range that identification was sure by one familiar with the spe- 
cies. On June 30, 1915, an adult female was taken at Mount Vernon. This bird when 
shot was hovering over some flowers in a small opening in a cottonwood grove on the 
bank of the John Day River. 
Myiarchus cinerascens cinerascens. Ash-throated Flycatcher. This flycatcher 
was met with twice in eastern Oregon. Two were seen in juniper trees near Prineville 
on June 3. An adult male was taken at Twickenham, in the John Day Canyon, on 
June 25. 
Dolichonyx oryzivorus. Bobolink. On July 23, 1915, I found a colony of about 
twenty-five of these birds on the Griggs ranch, three miles west of the town of John 
Day. This colony is said to have been present each summer the past three years, dur- 
ing which time it has increased in numbers. Two females were taken for specimens. 
There is an old breeding colony of Bobolinks in Harney Valley near Burns; and at the 
Oregon Agricultural College I recently examined the skin of an adult male in spring 
plumage that was taken by Professor Shaw in Union County; but the label lacks the 
date of capture. As large tracts of our arid valleys are brought under irrigation it will 
be interesting to note what the effect will be on this meadow loving bird. 
Pinicola enucleator montana. Rocky Mountain Pine Grosbeak. On September 9, 
1915, several of these grosbeaks were seen in the Hudsonian Zone near the junction of 
Cliff and the Imnaha River in the Wallowa Mountains. A female in worn summer plum- 
age was taken. 
Junco hyemalis hyemalis. Slate-colored Junco. On April 12, 1915, a female of this 
eastern junco, probably a late spring migrant off her regular route, was taken in the 
willow brush along the south bank of the Columbia River on Miller’s Ranch at the 
