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Taxus brevifolia Nutt. Deep cafions of Elk Mountain and 
on Snow Mountain. 
 Abtes concolor Lindl. Snow Mountain, from 4500 to 6000 
feet, also on Cobb Mountain, where it was collected by Mr. C. 
F, Leithold. 
_ Abtes nobilis Lindl. ‘The most abundant tree of Snow Moun- 
tain above the altitude of 6000 feet. 
Pinus Sabiniana Dougl. reaches about 3800 feet on Snow 
Mountain. 
Pinus ponderosa var. Jeffreyt Gray is found on Snow Moun- 
tain from 5000 feet upward. 
Pinus Balfouriana Jeffrey. Yolo Bolo. 5 
Pinus Lambertiana Dougl. was found on Snow Mountain at 
greater elevation than any other pine, but in the higher altitudes 
the trees were dwarfed and distorted. 
Veratrum Californicum Durand was abundant in the meadows 
of Snow Mountain. 
Smilax Californica Gray. Yolo Bolo. 
RANDOM BIRD-NOTES FROM MERCED BIG TREES 
AND YOSEMITE VALLEY. 
BY W. OTTO EMERSON. 
I found on arriving at the South Grove of Merced Big Trees 
some interesting birds peculiar to the higher altitude of the 
Sierra in summer. I spent June 17 and 18, 1893, in that section 
of the Merced Grove. I found it a slight hollow or flat of some 
four or five acres in extent where are eighteen or twenty trees of 
Sequoia gigantea scattered through the forest of sugar pines, 
_ yellow pines, cedars and firs. 
The work of the pileated woodpecker (Ceophleus pileatus) 
can be seen here and there spotted over the thick bark of the 
Sequoia. Many of the holes were six to eight inches across and 
ranging all the way from ten to thirty feet from the ground. I 
se only one of these large woodpeckers as it flew through the 
rees, 
