W. D. Stung .1921 Krepix Valley, 23 mi. n. Hazelton, B.C. 91. saw out on a rock in the river, and watched the king-fishers diving from the tops of the big cottonwoods down into the river, regular high dives. A few Spotted Sandpipers flew up and down the current, lighting on logs or rocky bars to feed. A merganser, chiefly reddish-brown, came down the current right past me, and when I rose up it flew. Had large white-patches on wings, was probably a female or possibly a male in eclipse plumage. (?) Worked on rabbit and other specimens all afternoon. (Yesterday I shot a Bohemian Waxwing down the road, which was evidently the one Mr. Swarth removed the day before.) This evening after going down to Ed Jathon's to see about my new rifle, I saw a Horned Owl quite away off the road; it flew on approach and I went down into the lower field and got a shot but it flapped off some distance and if I did hit it I couldn't find it. My supply of rabbits seems to bring many owls, for all we have killed have had remains of rabbits in their stomachs. Scared up a covey of Buffed Partridge which were roosting in a big spruce where I thought my owl fell. They acted as this they were drumming till I got clear Note: and then flew off whining. The owl when I shot at it was raising itself up and down as tho trying