132 Js'ORTH AMERICAN FAUNA. (no. 16. 



127. Parus gambeli. Mountain Chickadee. 



Common and widely distributed. In tlie firs at Wagon Camp they 

 were among- the commonest birds, and at hi<>:,her altitudes were seen or 

 heard nearly every day, Karly on the morning- of July 24, after camp- 

 ing for the night in the shelter of a miri'ow fringe of dwarf white-baric 

 pines at timberline, on one of the desolate torrent-swept beds of Incon- 

 stauce Creek, high up on the north side of Shasta^ we were saluted by 

 a small tiock of these cheerful little birds. In September they lielped 

 form the mixed tlo(!ks, along with Audubon and other warblers, Canada 

 nutliatclies, and other siindl fry so often seen among the ISliiista tirs and 

 alpine hemlocks. At Sisson Miss Merriam saw them about the mid- 

 dle of July; they were common there iu September, and were noted in 

 Shasta Valley by W. H. Osgood September 17 to '20. 



128. Parus rufescens. Chestnut- backed Chickadee. 



Not observed by us, but recorded by C. II. Townsend, wlio " obtained 

 a single individual at the western base of Mount Shasta on July 14, 

 1883." 



129. Psaltriparus minimus californicus. California P)Ush-Tit. 



Common along Little Sliasta Creek September 18 (W. H. Osgood). 

 Seen in the chaparral west of (ra/.elle, on the west side of Shasta Val- 

 ley, August 31 (Wn-non I>ailey). Townsend found it a common breeder 

 near the lish hatchery on the Lower McCloud liiver. 



130. Regulus satrapa olivaceus. Western Golden-crowned Kinglet. 

 I^oth kinglets are common on Shasta and doubtless breed in the 



Shasta tirs of the Canadian zone. The golden-crown was often seen 

 and heard at Wagon Camp, where it was collected July 18. It was 

 also common just within the lower edge of the fir forest in Mud Creek 

 Canyon July 23, and a couple of miles liiglier up about the end of tlie 

 month. C. H. Townsend obtained specinuMisat timberline in July, 1883. 



131. Regulus calendula. Kuby-crowned Kinglet. 



The ruby-crown was freciuently heard by various members of the 

 expedition, and at ditterent altitudes, from Wagon Cam]) in the lowia- 

 edge of the Shasta firs, to timberline, where one was collected l)y W. II. 

 Osgood August 4. In 1883 C. H. Townsend obtained two specimens, 

 one at timberline August ir>, the other at an elevation of about (!,()(i() 

 feet Se])tember 2. 



132. Myadestes townsendi. Townsend Solitaire. 



Not an uncommon breeder on the higher slo])es of Shasta, where 1 

 saw SIX during our sta,\'. The lowest of these was at Wagon Camp, in 

 tlie lower edge of (lie Shasta lirs, where one drank at oui- spring July 3L 

 'i'he otiiers were ill the lludsonian /one. and most of them in the alpine 

 hemlocks at oi' near our camp on S(|na\v Creeic, just Ix'low timbei-liiie. 



