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182 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 with 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 OF 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