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delightful account of Dawson’s acquaintance with these surf runners at 
Santa Barbara. His photography deserves praise. 
It was Professor Joseph Dixon of the University of California, in 1927, 
who found the surf-bird nesting in Alaska after four futile quests. After 
seventeen years of search the nest was located in McKinley National Park. 
Ouzel at Dead Indian Soda Spring 
Dead Indian Soda Spring, in the heart of the Cascades, is about 
twenty-five miles from Ashland, Oregon, as the crow flies but the round 
about Crater Lake Highway makes it a fifty mile trip. While my nephew 
waded up a mountain stream among huge rocks and fallen tree giants, 
catching a nice string of cutthroat trout, we visited another canyon where 
the water ouzel nested. I had previously seen their nest behind a waterfall 
in Ashland Canyon and had risked my life crawling over slippery rocks in 
Yosemite to find one. Ouzels are frequently seen from the train window 
along the Sacramento River. 
Two ouzels were busily feeding under the water or bobbing nervously 
on the huge white washed boulders. We sat quietly on the shore a few 
- feet distant and watched them for an hour. They were not disturbed by 
our movements. We did not succeed in photographing them but a guest from 
Glendale, California, caught this picture. 
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Mrs. Jack Tyrrell who lives between the trout streams says ouzels 
songs in mid-winter in the presence of ice and snow amaze one. Dr. Allen 
of Cornell has reproduced their songs to the great satisfaction of those 
who have not heard them. Ashley Hine found ouzels in song in extreme 
weather along Bow River in Canada. 
Maywood, Ill. 
