1887.] PKOCEEDINGS OF UNITED HTATE.S NATIONAL MUSEUM. \6o 



moutitaiii 10,400 feet high. The ref^ioii is mouiituiiiuius, witii immerous 

 lakes aucl vast piue forests extending- down to the borders of the sage 

 plains to the eastward. 



The mammals and birds named below were obtained only on this 

 eastern slope of the Sierra Xevada : 



MAMMALS. 



Cariacus macrotis. 

 JrctoniysJIavivvnter. 

 Tamias " lownscndi." 

 SpennophUiis " toivnseudi." 

 Sc'uini.'i " frcmonti." 

 Lepus campestrla. 

 drvicola " curtatus." 



Bydrodiclidon " surinamensiH.' 

 relccaniis erjitkrorliynchos. 

 J'elgadis (/aarauna. 

 rhalaropus tricolor. 

 Ii( care h'o.s' Ira a meriva iia. 

 Himan ^.opus in exican us. 

 I'ediocwtes " columMannii." 

 Ceiitrocercu.i uropliasianns. 

 Piooides arcticns. 

 Passerella " schiatanea." 

 riiakenoptilus nutlaWi,. 



Collections were made in winter in the northern end of the Sacra- 

 mento Valley, near the town of Eed Bluff. The following are the birds 

 peculiar to the valley region, or at least not obtained elsewhere : 



TotaiiKii melaitolciiciis. 

 Ercuncles ocadeii talis. 

 Elanus leucurits. 

 Geococcyx californianus. 



Coccyzus americanus. 

 Dryohates nuttaUi. 

 Otocoris " strigata." 

 Pica nuttalU. 



On a brief trip to Northern California, in the fall of 1885, 1 was 

 enabled to make small collections of vertebrates in the rainy belt of 

 country occupying the coast, a region of dense and continuous redwood 

 forests. The birds abounding here, but apparently wanting in the in- 

 terior, are : 



Urinaior pnciftcits. 

 Stercorurius parasiticus. 

 Larus glaucescens. 

 Lav us occidentalis. 

 Larus brachyrhynchus. 

 Larus ph i ladelphia. 

 Pdtcanus calif ornicas. 

 Merganser serraior. 

 Anas peuelope. 

 Oidcmia fnsca. 

 Oidemia perspicillata. 

 Philacte canagica. 

 Porzana Carolina. 

 Porzana novcboracensis. 

 Crymophilus fulicarius. 

 Plialaropus lohatus. 



Tringa canufus. 

 Tringa minutilla. 

 Tringa " paciftca." 

 Litnosa fedoa. 

 Totan us flavipes. 

 Symphemia semipalmata. 

 Charadrius squafarola. 

 Arenai'ia interpres. 

 Arcnaria melanocephalu. 

 Callipepla calif ornica. 

 Bonasa '* sahinii." 

 Falco anatum. 

 Bubo saturatns. 

 Melospiza " samuelis.^ 

 Pipilo '' oregomts." 

 Chamwa fasciata. 



I received courteous treatment from many persons while residing in 

 4S'orthern California, whom it would be superfluous to name. 1 am, 



