Belevue, Blaine Co. Idaho Dec 28 1935 half again as large as the others. It was probably a Golden Eagle, as they are supposed to be fairly common around here, despite the state bounty on the species. I flushed a Horned Owl from a clump of Cottonwood near the stream. Several times I raised flocks of Mallards which circled several times and alighted again farther upstream. Later I flushed one flock of about fifty Mallards from a large pool about 4 miles up the canyon. Several Wilson Snipe were encountered while I was following the course of the stream. They were feeding in the small areas of water cress which bordered all the larger pools. They seemed rather evenly spaced occurring at about 100 yard intervals along the stream. About three miles up the canyon near a shallow unfrozen pool I heard a sharp chattering sounding very much like the scolding notes of the Golden Mantled Ground Squirrel. I could barely see the movements of the animal through a thick growth of cottonwood and when I moved to a better position the animal disappeared. Later about 4 miles up the canyon, while stalking the flock of Mallards, I heard