[30]Much clearer testimony is required on this point. Oberholser, op. cit., p. 839, cites a record for Colton in Whitman County, but I have never seen this form in Yakima County; and it would seem remarkable that a bird should forsake the mild climate of Tacoma to endure the more severe winters and less certain food supply of the East-side.
[31]A near view of this remarkable nest was forbidden by the breaking of a negative.
[32]Narrative of a Journey Across the Rocky Mountains to the Columbia River [etc.], by John K. Townsend (1839), p. 339. Townsend’s “Catalog of birds found in the territory of the Oregon,” which appeared in this work, pp. 331-336, enjoys the distinction of being the first faunal list of this northwestern region. It contains 208 titles but the naturalist included in it mention of many species encountered by him in his passage of the Rocky Mountains, and he does not, of course, distinguish between the regions lying north and south of the Columbia River. Of the total number recorded, therefore, Washington cannot possibly be entitled to above 168 species, and the list has little value in establishing the status of a bird as a resident of Washington.
[33]Rep. Pac. R. R. Surv., Vol. VI., 1857, p. 82.
[34]Coues, Birds of the Northwest (1874), pp. 95, 96.
[35]Prof. O. B. Johnson in his “List of the Birds of the Willamette Valley, Oregon” [Am. Naturalist, July, 1880, p. 487] has made an excellent characterization of this song in “Holsey, govendy, govindy, goveendy.”
[36]Rep. Pac. R. R. Surv., Vol. XII., Book II., 1860, p. 171.
[37]Auk, vol. XV., April, 1898, p. 130.
[38]Narrative (1839), p. 344.
[39]Baird, Brewer & Ridgway, Vol. I., p. 65 [Reprint].