Shrew. 1921. Kuipine Valley. 156. the river, saw some Mallards but secured none. Had no well fishing. Few birds in fields or along willows. Saw one large flock of Blackbirds pestering a Sparrow Hawk and I secured one which was a purely Blackbird. Besides these I saw -- Black Headed Juncos, Song Sparrows, Robin, Gray Buffalo Goose, Yellow Shafted Flicker, Myrtle Warbler, [illegible] Capped Chickadee and Canadian Nuthatch. Spent part of the afternoon -- 383 immature Junco. 364 female " Euphagus carolinus 385 male P. migratoria Sept. 15. 1921 " " " with the dead salmon on the river. Wow! What a smell. Shot several ducks, Mallard and Teal but lost them in the river all except one of the latter. The only other birds I saw were a large grey Eagle, I don't know which kind, a Chickadee and a Purely humming Kinglet. Spent some time watching two young Whiskrats feeding in the marsh. They were gathering grass and burying it along their canals to the central pool where they seemed to be constructing a house or lining tunnels under some thick brush. When they swim they hold their tails stiffly behind them, swinging it rapidly back and forth with horizontal study, as tho it were an aid in swimming, when