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but to the establishment of its various lines of cooperative effort, and to the 
perfecting of its building plans. 
If the Museum of Comparative Oology appears thus to be in large measure 
founded on faith, it is not ashamed of such appearance. Works adequate to its 
present needs have not been lacking locally, and we have received many pleasant 
assurances of outside help. We believe that we are in a position to fully recipro- 
cate the confidence already reposed in us, and to put such contributions of nests 
and eggs as may be entrusted to us by the generosity of outside givers to the 
highest human service. 
Santa Barbara, California, February 15, 1916. 
NOTES ON SOME LAND BIRDS OF TILLAMOOK COUNTY, 
OREGON 
By STANLEY G. JEWETT 
T ILLAMOOK COUNTY, on the northwest coast of Oregon, is a land of high, 
heavily timbered mountains, deep canyons, and level, grassy meadows. 
There are three important bays in the county, Nehalem, Tillamook, and Ne- 
tarts, and seven fair sized rivers, five of which flow into Tillamook Bay, one into 
Nehalem Bay, and one, the Nestucca, into a small bay of the same name. Besides 
these streams there are innumerable small creeks flowing directly into the ocean. 
Most of the county is clothed in its primeval forests of Douglas spruce. Along 
the immediate coast line just above the tide lands, considerable Sitka spruce is 
found. Most of the banks of the streams through the agricultural areas are lined 
with willows, alders and heavy underbrush. The fruit of such species of com- 
mon native trees and shrubs as the blue elderberry, chittam ( Bhamnus ) and 
three species of huckleberry, form an important item in the birds’ food supply 
during the late summer and early winter months. The heavy growth of lodge- 
pole pine ( Finns contorta ) growing on the sand dunes along the beach is a great 
attraction to the crossbills. Most of the open country is devoted to dairying, and 
the broad pastures furnish good foraging for Meadowlarks, Brewer Blackbirds 
and Robins. 
During the past three years, the Oregon Fish and Game Commission under 
the direction of William L. Finley, State Game Warden, has carried on system- 
atic investigation of the bird and animal life throughout various parts of the 
state. The work has been carried on in Tillamook County by the writer, assisted 
at times by 0. J. Murie, now of the Carnegie Museum staff, and by Morton E. 
Peck, of Salem. Alfred Shelton, of the University of Oregon, has done some 
work at Netarts Bay. For two reasons considerable field work has been done in 
Tillamook County during parts of every month in the year. First, because this 
part of the state presents ideal conditions for a study of the wild life in our 
humid coast belt, and second, because the bays and the diversified coast line 
make ideal collecting grounds for waterfowl. For notes on the water birds 
found at Netarts, Tillamook County, Oregon, see Condor, xvi, 1914, pp. 107-115. 
Oreortyx picta picta. Mountain Quail. One of these quail was heard calling from 
a thicket of dwarf pine near the beach at Netarts, on April 14, 1914. They are reported 
as common on the hills along the east side of Tillamook Valley. They are not uncom- 
mon along the Nehalem River near Batterson Station. 
