. Bird lore. Birds; Birds; Ornithology. Reports of Field Agents 417 REPORT OF WILLIAM L. FINLEY, FIELD AGENT FOR THE PACIFIC COAST STATES. URING the early part of May, in company of R. B. Horsfall and Stanley Jewett, I inspected the bird colonies on Klamath Lake Reservation and spent four days getting moving-pictures of Sage Grouse during the strutting season. We discovered a place at the lower end of the lake where the Sage Cocks were accustomed to come very early in the morning and late in the afternoon to perform their interesting dance. This place was an open wash of 10 to 12 acres between
. Bird lore. Birds; Birds; Ornithology. Reports of Field Agents 417 REPORT OF WILLIAM L. FINLEY, FIELD AGENT FOR THE PACIFIC COAST STATES. URING the early part of May, in company of R. B. Horsfall and Stanley Jewett, I inspected the bird colonies on Klamath Lake Reservation and spent four days getting moving-pictures of Sage Grouse during the strutting season. We discovered a place at the lower end of the lake where the Sage Cocks were accustomed to come very early in the morning and late in the afternoon to perform their interesting dance. This place was an open wash of 10 to 12 acres between the sagebrush and the edge of the lake. By building a sagebrush blind and entering with the moving-picture camera before daylight, we succeeded in getting good pictures of the perfor- mances of these birds. During the spring season, while the females are on the nest, it is the custom of the males to come in for miles around to an open place that might be called an outdoor dance-hall. At first the birds were very wary about coming anywhere near the blind, but after the third day they became accustomed to it, and we had one bird as near as 25 feet from the camera. These pictures furnish a very important record of the life history of this rapidly disappearing bird. Field-work has been carried on during the past year in conjunction with Stanley Jewett of the Biological Survey with the idea of completing a cooperative state and federal report on the birds and animals of Oregon. During the months of June and July an exten- sive trip was made throughout eastern Oregon. Nearly a month was spent in the Malheur Lake country and in the Steins Mountains to the south. Far out in the wide, sagebrush country, about 50 miles from the nearest town, we came to an old deserted homesteader's cabin. From a general view of the surroundings, this was the last place in the tWTXi fT^" FINLEY'S Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digit
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