124 NORTH AMERICAN FAUNA. [no. 16. 



guishable. It is customary ainoiii;' oiMiitlioloj^ists to name recognizable 

 interji'rades wiiich lia\'e delinite aiul clearly delined breeding ranges. 

 On this basis hcndirvl seems entitled to staaul, since it ()Ccui)ies the 

 isolated crest of the Sierra jSIevada of California from the southern end 

 north to Shasta, and pushes on a short distance into southern Oregon 

 (to Fort Klamath, its type locality). At Diamond Lake, in the south- 

 ern Cascades, only a few miles north of Fort Klamath, subspecies minor 

 occurs. The ])iamond Lake specimen ' was shot by my assistant, E. 

 A. Preble, August 13, 189G, and is an adult male. Owing to the late 

 date and to the well-known erratic; habits of crossbills, this bird nniy 

 have been a wanderer from farther north. Hence the actual northern 

 breeding limit of hendirei and the southern breeding limit of minor 

 remain to be established. 



It is a singular fact that two of the specimens obtained by 0. H. 

 Townsend on Lassen, between Shasta and the High Sierra, are as large 

 and have as large bills as striclxJa)tdl. They were killed in summer and 

 may have been stragglers irom some of the mountains to the southeast. 



71). Leucosticte tephrocotis (?). Gray-crowned Leucosticte. 



At an altitude of 10,(100 to 11,000 feet, on the south side of Shasta 

 Peak, Vernon Lailey sav; half a dozen leucostictes August 17, and 

 again the next day. They were feeding among the rocks and on the 

 glacier which occupies the deep cross gulch just below Konwokitan 

 glacier. He tells me they flew down into the crevasses just as we had 

 seen them do on Mount Kainier the previous year. Since none were 

 collected there may be some doubt as to the species. The Sierra bird 

 is tepiirocotis ; the Kainier form liftoralis. 



80. Astragalinus tristis salicamans. Willow Goldfinch, 



Xo specimens obtained, but I am suie I saw the s])ecies at Sisson in 

 July and August with .1 . j>.s<iJfria. Walter K. Fisher reports it as com- 

 mon in Little iShasta Valley. 



81. Astragalinus psaltria. Aikansas Goldfinch. 



Common at Sisson and in Shasta Valley; breeds at Sisson. 



82. Spinus pinus. Pine Siskin. 



Fairly common thr(»ugliout the Shasta, fir forest, and rai'ging thence 

 upward into the alpine hemlocks and white-bark ])ines. Seen or heard 

 at frecpient intervals from the time of our arrival, the middle ol July, 

 until late in Sei)t<Mnbei-. 



83. Ammodramus sandwichensis alaudinus. Western Savanna Sparrow. 

 In Shasta Valley W. 11. Osgood Ibund this sjxM'ies eommoii Septem 



ber 17 to 20, and just below timberline on i'antlM'r Crecl< 1 saw several 

 Septend)er 18. 



'This H])e(;iiiicii, .•in .-Hlult in.ilc, iiurciH with ^p(<iiii(iis oT ni'inor iVoiu \\ luiiycl, 

 Alaska, and Ne:ili l!;i.\ and Lapush, WasliiiiLiton. 



