. A distributional list of the birds of Montana, with notes on the migration and nesting of the better known species . with the Long-tailed Chickadee. This is a common occurrence in rheGallatin Valley. Dates of observation in the Gallatin Valley are as , October 2, 1908, October 16. 1910, and March 18, 1911; Spring Hill,October 8, 1908. This movement down to the valleys constitutes the only indi-cation of a migration on the [lart of this species. 162 PACIFIC COAST AVIFAUNA The nest has been found in the Big Horn Mountains, containing six youngand an addled egg on June 18, 1880 (
. A distributional list of the birds of Montana, with notes on the migration and nesting of the better known species . with the Long-tailed Chickadee. This is a common occurrence in rheGallatin Valley. Dates of observation in the Gallatin Valley are as , October 2, 1908, October 16. 1910, and March 18, 1911; Spring Hill,October 8, 1908. This movement down to the valleys constitutes the only indi-cation of a migration on the [lart of this species. 162 PACIFIC COAST AVIFAUNA The nest has been found in the Big Horn Mountains, containing six youngand an addled egg on June 18, 1880 (Merrill, 1881, p. 204) ; at Gold Run, in theBelt Mountains, a nest containing six spotted eggs, June 23, 1887 (Williams,IHSSb, p. 108). Near Homestake, Jefferson County, three nests were discoveredui late June, lOlO. One contained five young, which flew when the nest wasopened, June 2ti. In another, discovered June 21, the young left June 25 or20. Tliis second nest was in tiie same stump with a nest of the Red-naped Sap-sucker, somewhat liiglier u]) in the stump and on the opposite side (Saunders,IDlOd, p. 200).. Fig. 33. MouxTAix CnicKAUEE ap-proaching KEST WITH FOOD. PlPE-STOXF. Creek, Jefferson County;June 25, 1910. 316. Penthestes hudsonicus hudsonicus (J. R. Forster) lliDsoNiAN ChickadeeA rare permanent resident of the mountains of northwestern JMontana onboth sides of the continental divide. Taken at St. Marys Lake in 1888 byGrinnell (Rhoads, 1893, p. 332). A pair with six young out of the nest seenon the Teton River, August 1. 1911 (Saunders, 1914a, p. 143). Two seen onSpotted Bear Mountain, South Fork of tlie Flathead River, in the summer of1915 (Betts, 1916, p. 163). 317. Penthestes rufescens rufescens (J. K. Townsend) ClIESTNlTT-BACKED ClIICKADEE A i^ermanent resident of northwestern Montana, west of the continentaldivide. Reported from the Coeur dAlene Mountains in 1863 (Cooper, 18G9a,p. 75). Common at Flathead Lake in 1915, and one secured June 30 (Saunders,I916e, p
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