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In consequence of the lateness of the season, 

 most of the birds that breed here had already left 

 the neighbourhood ; we therefore saw only such 

 birds as pass the winter here, and also a number 

 of aquatic birds that were daily arriving from the 

 north. Of the former we met with five kinds of 

 Icterus; one quite black, except the shoulders, 

 which were red ; these were extremely numerous, 

 and sleep, like the Icterus p/ioenicius, among rushes. 

 The Sturiius ludovkianus and Picus auratus of the 

 United States, are also found in California; the 

 Percnopterus califurnicus, Corvus inexicanus, and 

 Perdix calif orriica, are already known. A large 

 grey crane, probably from the north, remained here: 

 upon the whole, the number of birds observed, 

 amounted to forty. 



A few Amphibia were found concealed under 

 stones ; namely, a large Tachydromus, a Tropydurus^ 

 a Crotalus, a Coluber, and four Salamandrides : among 

 the latter was one with the body covered with warts, 

 and a narrow compressed tail, the glands of the ear 

 wholly wanting ; the others had long narrow bodies 

 of about the thickness of a common earth-worm, 

 with short legs, standing far apart, and toes scarcely 

 perceptible to the naked eye. 



Nearly two hundred kinds of beetles were col- 

 lected : with the exception of the Lampyris corru>.ca 

 Fdbr., which, according to Banks, is found on the 

 Columbia river, all are as yet undescribed. Upon 

 the dry ground, under stones, many Heteromerides, 



