KDixon 1947 Journal June 24. 2 mi W Ft Howes R.S., 7000 ft, Powder River Co, Montana Arrived at this camp at 6:30 PM, joining Mr A.H Miller and family. Noted lone bat flying over brook at dusk; Nighthawk flying over pool at same time. June 25. 2 mi W Ft Howes R.S., 7000 ft, Powder River Co, Montana. Clear sunny day, warm enough that I wore no jacket when leaving camp at 7:15 AM. Light southerly breeze came up about an hour later. I proceeded up the hills in a northwesterly direction from camp, up a draw and onto a ridge following along the drainage of the next draw to the west. This whole area about the camp drains to the east into the Tongue River. The slopes on which I was hunting were covered with open forest: 2 Yellow Pine with occasional Lodgepole Pines; undergrowth herbaceous except for scattered Junipers, Prus trilobata and rarely Brunns and Collected a ? Cowbird, one of 3 perched in the top of a pine. Took a White-breasted Nuthatch in a pine at the edge of the grove on the slope where it dropped from the level surface atop the ridge. Ridge top area was often covered with grasses and Artemesia. Dark Sharnes were seen in this edge situation repeatedly. Chipping Sharnes were abundant everywhere, by far the most common bird hereabouts. Shot at a ? Crossbill in a tree - birds flew off giving Goldfinch-like calls. Heard and saw