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Jan.,1916 CHARACTERISTIC BIRDS OF THE DAKOTA PRAIRIES 21 The next night at half past eight when the red light was fading in the west, a Nelson Sparrow was still banging cymbals in the marsh, and two Great Blues and a Night Heron apparently starting on their nightly hunt flew over- head between the marsh and the largest of the lakes. Washington, D.C., May 23, 1915. NEW AND INTERESTING BIRD RECORDS FI?OM OREGON By STANLEY G. JEWETT ROM April to September, 1915, the writer wes engaged in field work for the United States Biological Survey. Work was conducted through the mountains and narrow valleys of east central and northeastern Oregon. Large collections of both birds and mammals were made, and extensive notes taken. The notes on the birds mentioned below are thought to be of sufficient importance to warrant publication at this time. Canachites frank[ini. Franklin Grouse. This species of grouse is fast disappear- ing from its range in northeastern Oregon. During the early part of September I hunted, unsuccessfully, for specimens along the headwaters of the Imnaha River in Wallowa County, where the birds were formerly common and are still known to occur. I heard several reports of the occurrence of Fool Hens, as they are commonly called, but not until September 9, did I establish an authentic record, on which date I found the tail and several feathers of an adult male where some predatory animal had killed it. The locality was about a mile up Cliff River above its junction with the Im?aha River in the Wallowa Mountains. This grouse is undoubtedly often seen by prospectors and sheep- herders in this section, as most of them are familiar with the Fool Hen as differing from the Richardson Grouse (Dcndragapus o. richardsoni), which is common throughout the mountains of northeastern Oregon. Selasphorus platycercus. Broad-tailed Hummingbird. This species was noted but twice; first at Dayville, on June 27, where a fine adult male was seen hovering about some honeysuckle flowers on the hotel porch several times during the day. This bird was seen at such close range that identification was sure by one familiar with the spe- cies. On June 30, 1915, an adult female was taken at Mount Vernon. This bird when shot was hovering over some flowers in a small opening in a cottonwood grove on the bank of the John Day River. Myiarchus cinerascens cinerascens. Ash-throated Flycatcher. This flycatcher was met with twice in eastern Oregon. Two were seen in juniper trees near Prineville on June 3. An adult male was taken at Twickenham, in the John Day Canyon, on June 25. Dolichonyx oryzivorus. Bobolink. On July 23, 1915, I found a colony of about twenty-five of these birds on the Grigga ranch, three miles west of the town of John Day. This colony is said to have been present each summer the past three years, dur- ing which time it has increased in numbers. Two females were .taken for specimens. There is an old breeding colony of Bobolinks in Harney Valley near Burns; and at the Oregon Agricultural College I recently examined the skin of an adult male in spring plumage that was taken by Professor Shaw in Union County; but the label lacks the date of capture. As large tracts of our arid valleys are brought under irrigation it will be interesting to note what the effect will be on this meadow loving bird. Pinicola enucleator montana. Rocky Mountain Pine Grosbeak. On September 9, 1915, several of these grosbeaks were seen in the HudsonJan Zone near the junction of Cliff and the Imnaha River in the Wallowa Mountains. A female in worn summer plum- age was taken. Junco hyemalis hyemalis. Slate-colored Junco. On April 12, 1915, a female of this eastern junco, probably a late spring migrant off her regular route, was taken in the willow 5rush along the south bank of the Columbia River on Miller's Ranch at the