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My most fruitful collectiug- liekl was in the rugged foot-hiils of Shasta 

 Couuty, ])articulaily in the viciuity of the TJuitcd States saliuou-breed- 

 iug-establishnieut on McCloud Eiver. 



The station has an elevation of 1,000 feet, bat is surrounded by 

 mountains rising usually a thousand feet higher. The country is 

 wooded chiefly with pines, but the forests are often interspersed with 

 vast tracts of inpenetrable chaparral. 



Mammals, birds, and reptiles abound, and the streams are full of sal- 

 mon and trout. 



The Black-tailed Deer {Cariacus coUDnhiamis) is especially abundant. 

 The following species of birds obtained here were not met with else- 

 where : 



Coluniha fanciala. I Tachyvhicta thalassina. 



Splii/rapicus varius lutchaHs. Vlreo hnitonl. 



Trochilufi ah'Jiundri. HarpnrhiiHcliHn rcdivivus. 



Trochilus calliope. Chamaa fasciata hentihawi. 



Melospi~a licerman ni. 



During the summer of 1883 I traveled through the Mount Shasta 

 country in Siskiyou County, with a party of the United States Geologi- 

 cal Survey, the topographical division, Prof. Gilbert Thompson in 

 charge. The route included Yreka and the headwaters of the Mc- 

 Cloud River as well. Much time was spent on the higher slopes of the 

 mountain, the summit of which is 14,440 feet high, and clothed in per- 

 petual snow. North of Mount Shasta there are extensive sage plains 

 stretching away toward Oregon, but immediately around the mountain 

 and to the southward are continuous and magnificent pine forests. The 

 nature of the country in general is so frequently explained in the fol- 

 lowing notes that it is unnecessary to speak further of it here. 



The following is a list of the birds and mammals belonging i)roperly 

 to the evergreen coniferous forests and higher mountains of Northern 

 California generally : 



Oreortyx "jjlumiferus." 

 Dendraijapus '^fuJiijiiiosus.^' 

 Colmnha fasciata. 

 Accipiter " striatulus." 

 Xeuo2)icus aJbolarvatus. 

 Picoides arvficus. 

 SpJiyrapicas ruber. 

 Spliyrapicus thyroidenti. 

 Ceophlocus pileatns. 

 Coutopus borealis. 

 Cyanocitta stelleri. 

 Perisorens obscurits. 

 Picicorvns columbianus. 

 Cyanoceplialus cyanocephahis. 

 Carpodacus cassini. 

 Loxia mi)ior. 

 Pasnerella me(jarhyncha. 



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Passerella " schistacea." 

 Pipilo chlorurus. 

 Dendroica occideutaHs. 

 HelminthophUa " lutescen.'i.' 

 Geothlypis viacgiUivrayi. 

 Geoth Jypis * ' occidentalis." 

 Certhia " americana.^' 

 Sitta canadensis. 

 Parus gambeU. 

 Parus rufescens. 

 Sialia arctica. 



MAMMALS. 



ILapJodon riifus. 

 Lagomys princeps. 

 Tamias lateralis. 

 Sciurus ^^frcmonti." 

 Sclurus douglassi. 



