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Ill the iield work on which the present report is based, I was aided 

 by Yernoii Bailey, chief flekl naturalist of the IMological Survey, and 

 my assistants, Wilfred H. Osgood, Walter K. Fisher, and Kichard T. 

 Fisher. Yernoii Bailey had charge of the work at the Shasta base camps 

 and on a trip around the base of the mountain; Walter K.Fisher 

 had charge of the work in JMud Creek and ^Vsh Creek canyons and 

 near timberliue east of Mud Creek, and afterwards took a party to Fall 

 Elver Lake and Lassen Butte; W. H. Osgood had charge of the work 

 on Lassen after Walter Fisher's departure, and also visited Squaw 

 Creek and Shasta and Little Shasta valleys; 11. T. Fisher spent the 

 season working from the various camps on Shasta and at Sisson, and 

 accompanied Osgood on the trip to Little Shasta Valley.' 



Our camps on Shasta were visited by Henry Gannett, chief geo- 

 grapher of the I'. S. Geological Survey; John H. Sage, of Connecticut, 

 secretary of the American Ornithologists' Union ; and two or three 

 others, all of whom rendered important assistance. 



In addition to the work on and near Shasta covered by the present 

 report, held work was done in various directions. Three cross sec- 

 tions of the Sierra Nevada, north of latitude 39°, were made b}^ Bailey, 

 Osgood, and myself; Bailey and Walter Fisher ran a line from Black 

 Bock Desert, Nevada, to Shasta, by way of Madeline Plains; Bailey 

 and I, accompanied by Henry Gannett, carried the work across the 

 wild and little known mountains from Shasta to the ocean, which 

 we reached at Humboldt Bay; and later in the season much work was 

 done farther south, chiefly in the inner and outer Coast Ranges. 



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Only two publications have been found relating to the zoology and 

 botany of the Shasta region. The first is a report by Charles H. Town- 

 send, of the U. S. Fish Commission, who, fifteen years before our visit, 

 was stationed at Baird, a fish hatchery on McCloud River. While 

 thereMr.Townsend visited Berryvale (now Sisson Tavern) and accom- 

 panied Major Gilbert Thompson, who was in charge of a triangnlation 

 party of the U. S. Geological Survey, in his field work on Shasta. The 

 results of Mr. Townsend's work are contained in an important report 

 entitled 'Field Notes on the Mammals, Birds, and Rej^tiles of Northern 

 California,' published in the fall of 1887.^ In addition to the records in 

 this report, Mr. Townsend has kindly placed his manuscrii^t catalogue 

 at my disposal, and has in several instances given me important sup- 



' While this report was passing through the press (July, 1899), I sent Walter K. 

 Fisher to Mount Shasta ami Shasta A'alley to obtain supplemental infoiination, some 

 of which is incorjiorated in the mammal, hird, and plant reports at the end. — C. H. M. 



2Proc. U. S. National Museum, X, pp. 1.59-241, Nov., 1887. 



