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NORTH AMERICAN FAUNA. 



[NO. 16. 



71. Agelaius phceniceus. Ived-wiiiged Blackbird. 



Conmiou in Shasta Valley September 1 7 to 20 (Osoood). C. H. Town- 

 send jiives it as "an abundant summer resident of the cultivated coun- 

 try north of Mount Shasta." 



72. Sturnella magna neglecta. Western Meadowlark. 



Common in the meadowland at Sisson and Kdgewood, and in the 

 narrow meadows bordering Shasta Kiver, in Shasta Valley. At Wagon 

 Camp I saw one in a grassy opening August 13, and a few days earlier 

 Walter K. Fisher saw one in a similar place a little higher on the 

 mountain. In the Sisson Meadows ('Strawberry A^alley'), during the 

 first half of September, Li. T. Fisher found meadowlarks "gathered in 

 flocks of as many as a hundred birds." 



73. Icterus bullocki. Bullock Oriole. 



Common along streams in Shasta and Little Shasta valleys (W. K. 

 Fisher). A'ernon Bailey tells me that at Ager, in the north end of 

 Shasta Valley, some silver })oplars in a door yard are literally full of 

 nests of this oriole, and that when he examined them rlune 2(>, 1899, the 

 new nests contained young orioles and the old nests young house 

 finches {Carpo(l((CHs ni. obscurus). 



74. Scolecophagus cyanocephalus. Brewer Blackbird. 



Fairly conmiou at Sisson and in Shasta Valley, but not observed on 

 the mountain except in one instance, when several were seen at extreme 



timberline on the east side of 

 Mud Creek Canyon August 

 24 by Vernon Bailey and 

 Florence A. Merriam. 

 7."). Coccothraustes vespertinus 

 montanus. Western 



Evening Grosbeak. 

 One of the commonest and 

 most characteristic birds of 

 the Shasta iir belt (Canadian 

 zone), and much less common 

 in the alpine hemlocks (llud- 

 .s(mian zcme). At Wagon 

 Cam]), near the lower border 

 of the Canadian zone, small 

 flocks were seen or heard 

 daily whenever the camp was 

 occupied, from the time oiour 

 arrival, the middle of .July, 

 until our departure, Seittem- 

 ber 25. At S({uaw Creek 

 Campjinthelludsoniau zone, 

 they were much less conunon, but still by no means raie, and during 

 early August their distinct ive call, a short whistle, was heard every day. 



Fig. 41. — Western Evoiiinj; (Jrosbcak (Cutxtitliian 

 vespertinwiinnntanus.) Drawn by L. A. Fuortes. 



