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Taxus brevifolia Nutt. Deep canons of Elk Mountain and 

 on Snow Mountain. 



Abies concolor Lindl. Snow Mountain, from 4500 to 6000 

 feet, also on Cobb Mountain, where it was collected by Mr. C. 

 F. Leithold. 



Abies 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. 



Pituis ponderosa vsix. Jeffrey i Oxa.y is found on Snow Moun- 

 tain from 5000 feet upward. 



Films Balfoiiriajta Jeffrey. Yolo Bolo. 



Films 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. 



[ 'eratnim Californiaim Durand was abundant in the meadows 

 of Snow Mountain. 



Smilax Calif ornica Gray. Yolo Bolo. 



RANDOM BIRD-NOTES FROM MERCED BIG TREES 

 AND YOSEMITE VAEEEY. 



BY W. OTTO EME;RS0N. 



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, i^ 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 {Ceophlcetis pilcahis) 

 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 

 saw only one of these large woodpeckers as it flew through the 

 trees. 



