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Part of Sioux County, June 17-July 2, 1911

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Species of Birds Observed in

Sioux County, June 17th to
July end, 1911.

- Killdeer

Bobwhite

Sharp-tailed grouse

“Mourning dove

Turkey vulture
Krider hawk

_ Ferruginéus rough-legged hawk

Prairie falcon

Desert Sparrow hawk

Western horned owl

_ Blaeck-billed cuckoo
Belted kingfisher

Mountain hairy yvoodpecker
Red-headed woodpecker

Lewis woodpecker
Northern flicker
Red-shafted flicker

-Poor-will
Western nighthawk

fe e-throated rock swift

Pitkensas flycatcher

Say phoebe

Desert horned lark
Magpie

Blue jay

Pinion jay

Crow

Gowbira

Red-winged blackbird

Western meadowlark

Bulloek oriole
Brever blackbird

_ Red erossbill
- Western goldfineh

Western vesper sparrow

- Western

Western grasshonver sparrow
Western lark sparrow
chipping sparrow
Vestern field sparrow
white-winged junco

Arctic towhee

Black-headed vrosbeak

Lark bunting

Lazuli bunting



In the matter of bird notes I must draw
sparingly upon the observations recorded,
for there is a mass of detail which might be
written here. I shall confine myself to a
list of the species observed during our first
trip to Sioux County, with notes regarding a
limited number of species.

. :

White-rumped Shrike. - Common about the
heads of the canyons. At the head of Monroe
Canyon for half a mile or more the barb-wire
fenee was decorated with the shrikes' vic-
tims - chiefly grasshoppers and crickets -
sonetinmes as many as five being impaled on
the wires between two posts.

Red Srossbill. - One flock seen.
Doubtless a resident in this region. -

Western Meadow-lark. - Common in Hat
Creek Valley, and particularly fond of hang-
ing around the creeks, where I saw them
sometimes in flocks of a dozen or more,
wading in the shallow water of marshy
places like so many sandpipers.

Crow. - Rarely seen.

Blue Jay. - Three specimens observed,
one in Hat Creek Valley and two in Monroe |
wa Canyon & ;

Kingbird. - Often associated with the
Arkansas Plycatcher, which is the prevailing
species of the group here.

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Yellow-shafted Flicker. - For several
days I believed that I had seen a yellow-
shafted flicker associated with the common
red-shafted flicker, and finally on two oe-
easions saw specimens at short distances

and unmistekebly. | —

Krider Hawk. - A common species, the @
nests being placed on the face of bluffs, or
in pines. The birds nest early in the a
spring, so the nests we found were unoceu- |
pied - excepting one, found June 28th, in |
the top of a large pine near the mouth of

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