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THE CONDOR 
Vol. XI 
the wires. Some were dead, others wounded. A little later I saw a small flock 
flit across the road ahead of us. I saw the end of a wing fly in one direction and 
the wounded bird went fluttering to the ground. He had struck the wire wuth 
such force that the last joint of the wing was completely severed. Otherwise he 
was unharmed. These dead and wounded birds furnisht foraging for neighboring 
cats. At another time, Bohlman and I saw several Western Sandpipers that had 
been killed in the same way out on the Alameda marshes. 
dead song sparrow with foot wedged in between 
THE WOVEN WIRES ok A FENCE 
During the summer of 1908 while traveling thru eastern Oregon, we came 
upon a Horned Lark that evidently in full flight had caught its wing on the barb of 
a wire fence, for it was hanging dead. At another time I found the body of a 
thrush hanging to the barb of a wire fence. The wire ran straight across the top 
of a zigzag fence, and the bird in full flight had just skimmed the top of the rail 
to go full force into the wire before it was seen. The barb had caught in the 
