Marshall, 1941 N Santiam R., 3400 ft., Linn Co, Oreg. June 11 walked the timber on the North side of the river above camp. Went along my 300 yd. trail to where I collected a F 3-toed woodpecker - going to hear this ? This country flat & exposed better to the sun i in very open timber & little undergrowth. Mostly lodgepole pine, white pine, douglas fir, etc (spruce), less hemlock. The ideal place for hermit thrushes (quite a lot of young clumps of trees). 4 adjacent hermit thrushes, collected 3. Saw flock of crossbills. This timber lower - perhaps on poorer soil. Same applies to a comparatively dwarf forest of hemlock which I hit in a little valley to the north - easy collecting for creepers, gray jays, hermit thrushes but didn't locate any varied thrushes (by giving their song, owl calls, squeals.) Nor did I come upon the mate of my spotted Owl (this hemlock forest was in the draw above where I got the ?).