ZOOLOGY. 
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PIPILO OBEGONA. 
The Ground Bobin. 
This bird, so like the eastern “ towhee bunting,” we saw very frequently after leaving the 
Sacramento valley. It seemed to become more abundant as we progressed toward the 
Columbia, and on the upper Des Chutes, and on the slopes of the Cascades it was as common 
as the P. erythrophthalmus in the wood lots at home. In its habits it resembles its eastern 
representative as closely as in its plumage. 
PIPILO FUSCA. 
The Canon Finch. 
Very common in the Sacramento valley, where it frequents the banks of streams and river 
bottoms, scratching about in the leaves under the bushes, as our other ground finches delight to 
do. This habit, as well as its long tail and jerking flight from one clump of bushes to the 
centre of another, indicated to me its affinities, though the bird was a stranger to me, and was 
almost entirely silent. 
On the shores of upper Klamath lake, upon one occasion I saw what I supposed to be another 
species of Pipilo, but could not secure a specimen. In my notes of August 15th I made the 
entry: “ Saw finch, size and habits of towhee bunting ; ground color, lilac, with bars of white 
on wings and tail; very shy ; did not hear its note.” 
PICUS HAEBISII. 
Harris’ Woodpecker. 
Not uncommon in the wooded districts of northern California and Oregon. 
PICUS NUTTALLII. 
Nuttall’s Woodpecker. 
Common in California. 
PICUS GAIBDNEBII. 
Gairdner’s Woodpecker. 
Very common in northern California and Oregon. 
PICUS WILLIAMSONII. 
Williamson’s Woodpecker. 
The only specimen which I saw of this new bird I killed in the pine forest bordering upper 
Klamath lake on the east. Its habits are apparently very similar to those of P. Harrisii and 
P. Gairdnerii, which inhabit the same region. The individual procured, when first seen, was 
creeping up the trunk of a large yellow pine, (P. hracliyptera,) searching for insects in the 
bark. Its cry was very like that of P. Harrisii. When shot, though killed, he retained his 
hold of the bark of the branch on which he sat, as woodpeckers so often do, and I was compelled 
to dislodge him with the contents of my second barrel, by which he was somewhat mutilated. 
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