110 NORTH A:\IKRICAN fauna. [no. 16. 



11. Ereunetes occidentalis (?) Western Sandpiper. 



A Hock of small S!in(lpi})ers supposed to be this species was seen by 

 \V. H, Osf?ood in Shasta A'alley Sei)teniber 19. 



12. Totanus flavipes. Yellow-legs. 



A \\ader believed to be this species was heard in Shasta A'allt'v Sep- 

 tember 19 by E T. Fisher. 



13. Helodromas solitarius cinnamomeus. Western Solitary Sandpi])er. 

 ]Not observed by us. but in 188.5 a male was seen at Sisson on August 



3 by C. H. Towusend. 



14. Actitis macularia. S])<)tted Sandi)iper. 



C. 11. Townsend secured a spotted sandpiper at Sisson August 2, 

 188."}. Late in July, 1899, Walter K. Fisher found it rather common on 

 Shasta liiver. 



15. JEgialitis vocifera. Killdeer. 



Common at Sisson, where from July to early September a small flock 

 was always crying and feeding in the nu'adows between the town and 

 Sisson Tavern. Abundant and noisy in Shasta A'alley September 

 17-20 (W. H. Osgood). 



IG. Oreortyx pictus plumiferus. Plumed Mountain (i>uail. 



Fairly common, but not often seen, in the Shasta fir belt and the 

 manzanita chaparral along its lower edge. Two or three broods were 

 found near M'agon Camp the latter part of July, when the young were 

 hardly a third grown. Several were seen and killed high up on Mud 

 Creek Canyon August 8 by H. T. Fisher and W. 11. Osgood, who also 

 saw several flocks in Shasta Valley Septend)er 17-20. At Sisson, the 

 first half of September, 11. T. Fisher found many small flocks in the dry 

 woods and chaparral west of the village. 



17. Lophortyx californicus vallicola. California \'allcy (^)uail. 



Not found on the mountain, but common in Little Shasta \'alley, 

 where W. H. Osgood secured a specimen September 19. In August, 

 1883, C. n. Townsend saw them "in considerable iuiml)crs at the base 

 of Mount Shasta," near Sisson. 



18. Dendragapus obscurus fuliginosus. Sooty ('■ rouse. 



Fairly common in the Shasta lir forest, and less so at higher alti- 

 tudes. At Wagon Camp, during the last half of July, we often saw a 

 hen grouse with half a dozen young; and in a rocky i)lace among the 

 ali)ine hendocks near S(|uaw Creek, in Septend)er, we several times 

 ran across a small flock, all full grown, feeding among patches of moun 

 tain chin(|uai)in aiul the dwarf mountain manzanita (Arctostaphi/los 

 ncvmlcitsiH). 1 Jerries of the latter fornu'd the principal contents of the 

 crop of one killed by Vernon Lailey August 21. Mixed with these 

 berries were seed cajtsules of /'rufstctiion tirarili-iii us and a few large 



