360 ORNIXnOLOGY. 



Alpine woods. 



Tur(lu8 inigratorius Common. 



Siiilia arctica Abundant. 



Carpodacus cassiui Abundant. 



Cbiv soniitris pinus Abundant. 



Spizi'lla arizoiliE Common, 



I'ipilo clilururus Common. 



Cliffs pnd rocky places. 



Salpiiictcsobsoh'tus Abundant. 



Catbcrpes coiispersus Common. 



Taitlrvciiieta tlialassiua Abundant. 



Iliniiido lioneoriiiu Common. 



Petrocbelidou luiiifioiis Vm'y abttnd^t. 



Sayoriiis sayus Rare. 



Panyptila saxatilis Very abunWt. 



Faico polyagnia Common. 



Falco iiiBvius Bare. 



Falco sjiaiverius Abundant. 



Aquila canadensis Common. 



Buteo calurus Common. 



Buteo swainsoni Common. 



Open meadotcs. 



Pooecetes conflnis. Common. 



Cliondestes grauiinaca. . . . Common. 

 Stellula calliope Abundant. 



Trocbilus alexandri Common. 



Selaspborus platycercus . . . Very abundH. 



26. Overland Eanche, Ruby Valley (August 28-September 3). — The 

 characteristics of both valley and mountains were quite dilFerent from those 

 at "Camj) 10," although both were a continuation of the same. The lime- 

 stone formations of the southern portion of the range had become trans- 

 formed to steeper and more rugged granite peaks, tlie highest of which 

 towered to an altitude of about 12,000 feet, while, owing to their granitic 

 structure and extreme ruggedness, their slopes and spurs were almost desti- 

 tute of vegetation. The canons, however, supported a luxuriant growth 

 of shrubs and other plants, with here and there small copses or groves of 

 aspen and narrow-leafed cotton-wood (Populus angustifolia), the copses and 

 tliickets having usually an undergrowth of briery rosaceous shrubs, but 

 these, in places, were replaced by a carpeting of beautiful fei-ns. Unlike 

 localities farther southward in this valley, this shrubbery was continued 

 across the valley, on the borders of the stream, to the meadoVvs whicii 

 extend to the shores of Franklin Lake. The meadow-lands of the valley 

 had become transformed by cultivation into broad fields of grain, more than 

 a thousand acres of the valley being thus reclaimed. The lake, Avhich 

 occupied the more depressed portion of the valley, was simply an enlarge- 

 ment of Kuby Lake, containing in its central portion a wide expanse of 

 open water, in which thousands of water-fowl dwelt secure from the gunner — 



