DESCRIPTION OF CAMPS. 



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for the Virginia City market is the chief production of the settlement, he 

 on the eastern sifle of the valley, between the Sierra Nevada and the 

 Comstock, or Virginia Mountains, the first of the desert ranges. Through 

 the middle portion of these extensive meadows the Truckee River courses, 

 its banks being fringed with dense thickets of rather tall willows, growing 

 about fifteen feet high. During the summer these luxuriant meadows were 

 the abode of numerous water-fowl, while in the thickets Magpies {Pica 

 hiidsonica) and smaller birds were abundant. The species found in this 

 locality were the following: — 



1. Telinatodytes paUulicola. 



2. Denilrceca a».stiva. 



3. Geotblypis triclias. 



4. Icteria lougicauda. 



0. Pyranj^a ludoviciaiia. 



6. Hirundo horrcornin. 



7. Petrochelidou Inuitioiis. 



8. Stelf^idopteryx serripciiiii.s. 



9. Cotyle riparia. 



10. Vireosylvia swaiusoui. 



11. CoUurio exciibitoroides. 



12. Passerculus alaudiiius. 



13. Pooecctes cotifiiiis. 



14. Melospiza lieeriiianiii. 

 1."). Chondestcs gianimaca. 



IG. Hedyiiu-U's iiiolaiiocepbalus. 



17. Cyanospiza amoena. 



18. Pi|)ilo orcgonus. 



19. Xantboteplialus icterocepbalus. 



20. Agclaius pboeniceiis. 



21. Sturnella noglecta. 



22. Icterus bullocki. 



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 28. 

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23. Pica budsonica. 



24. Eiupidonax pnsillus. 

 Cbordeiles lienryi. 

 Ceryle alcyoii. 

 Colaptes iiiexicaiius. 

 Circus budsouius. 

 Zeuaidura carolincnsis. 



30. ^gialitis vociferus. 



31. Rocurvirostra americana. 



32. Himautopus uiexicanus. 



33. llhyacopbilus solitarius. 



34. Tringoidcs inacularius. 



35. Botaurus minor. 

 Porzana Carolina. 

 Anas boscbas. 

 Cbaulelasmus streperus. 

 Mareca americana. 

 Dafila acuta. 



41. Si)atula clypeata. 



42. Qnenpiedula cyanoptera. 



43. Kettion carolineusis. 



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 40. 



? Oauaco obscura. ['■'■ Canace canadensis, var. franklini." Probably C. 



obscura, wbicb is abundant on tbe Sierra Nevada.] 

 Oreortyx pii'tns. Abuudunt after Oct. Ist. 

 Loi)b()rryx calitbrnicus. Abundant. 

 Jigialitis vociferus. Oct. 

 Gallinago wilsoni. Nov.; tiro S2)ecs. 

 Braiifa canadensis. Xov. 

 Anas boscbas. Xot seen. 



Pelecanus erytbrorbyncbus. Oct.; one Jluck passing over. 

 Tbe more notewortby of tbe above species are Chamaa fasciata, Sayornis nigricans, 

 and Calyptc anncc, wbicb would hardly bave been supposed to occur so bigh up among 

 these mountains. 

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