402 ORNITHOLOGY. 



453, (J ad.; 8^ — 12| — 4/;i — 3/,,. Same remarks, etc. 



517, eggs (4); Carsou City, April 24. Nest in brush-heap, in cemetery. 



518, eggs (5); Carson City, April 24. Nest in sage-bush, about 18 inches from 

 ground. 



519, eggs (4); Carson City, April 24. Nest on ground beneath sage-bush. 



520, eggs (3) ; Carson City, April 24. Nest in sage-bush, about two feet from 

 ground. 



521, eggs (3) ; Carson City, April 24. 



554, 555, nest and eggs (5); Carson City, April 28. Nests in brush-heaps, in 

 cemetery. 



821, eggs (3); Austin, Nevada, July 3, 1868. Nest in small bush of Symjjhori- 

 carpus montanus, about two feet from ground. 



1123. 1124; single eggs, from nests containing young. Antelope Island, Great 

 Salt Lake, June 7, ISGO. 



1125, nest; Antelo|)e Island, Great Salt Lake, June 7, 18G9. Nest in sage-bu.sh, 

 situated as usual. 



1135, nest and eggs (3); Antelope Island, June S. 



1153, nest; Antelope Island, Juno 8. Nest in sage-bush. 



1158, nest and eggs (4) ; " Rabbit Island " (near Stausbury Island], Great Salt 

 Lake, June 11. Nest in grease- wood bush, near shore. 



Family SAXICOLIDiE— Stone-Chats. 



SlALIA MEXICANA. 



Csilirornia Bliio-hird. 



SUdia mexicana, Swains., Fauna Bor. Am., I, 1831, 202. — Baird, B. N. Am., 1858, 

 223; Cat. N. Am. B., 1859, No. 159; Review, 18G4, G3.— Coopee, Orn. Cal., 

 28.— CouES, Key, 1872, 76; Check List, 1873, No. 17, B. N.W., 1874, 14.— 

 B. B. & R., Hist. N. Am. B., I, 1874, 65, pi. v, fig. 2.— Henshaw, 1875, 161. 



The Western Blue-bird is known to liave a range nearly co-extensive 

 with the limits of the Western Region, it being abundant tln-oughout 

 the main ranges of the Rocky Mountains, north to Colorado, and also in 

 the same parallels of latitude, or even farther northward, on the Pacific 

 coast. Yet we lost sight of this species entirely after we left the eastern 

 water-shed of the Sierra Nevada, and never saw nor heard of it in the Wah- 

 satch or Uintah Mountains, notwithstanding the latter country appeared 

 equally adapted to the requirements of the species. The last individuals 

 seen, as we journeyed eastward, were a few families of young birds, with 

 their parents, in the wooded valley of the Truckee River, near the Big 



