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rare at all places along our route. Its great abundance at Sacramento ma y 

 possibly be explained by the extensive and luxuriant gi-owth of thistles 

 which occupied many waste-places in the suburbs, the seeds of these plants 

 .supplying them, in season, with a plentiful supply of food. 



List of upccimcnu. 



5, C, 7, uests aud eggs; Sacramento City, California, June 0, 18G7. Nests in an 

 oak grove, resting ou borizontal branches of the small trees. 



51, nest and eggs; Saeraniento City, California, June 18,1807. Nest on hori- 

 zontal branch of small cotton-wood, in copse. 



81, nest and eggs ; Sacramento, June 24, 1867. 



87, nest and eggs ; Sacramento, June 28, 1SG7. 



93, nest aud eggs; Sacramento, Juue 29, 1807. Nest in small cotton- wood, iu 

 copse. 



778, S ad.; Truckee Reservation, Nevada, May 31, 1S08. 5,^—9^— (?)— 2A. Bill, 

 orange-yellow, the point darker; iris, very dark sepia; tarsi and toes, dilute reddish- 

 sepia. 



1309, nest and eggs (."?); Pack's Canon, Uintah Mountains, Utah, July 4, 1809. 

 Nest iu thorn-apple shrub, by stream. 



CURYSOMITEIS TSALTRIA. 

 Orceii-backed Galdfisicii; "Arkaiisa»i Ool(l(iiicli.'" 



Fringilla psaltria, SAY, Long's Exped., II, 1823, 40. 



Chrysomitris psallria, BoNAP., Comp. and Geog. List, 1838, 33. — Baird, B. N. 

 Am., 18.J8, 422; Catal., 18.59, No. 314— CooPER, Oru. Cal., I, 108.— CouES, 

 Key, 1872, 132; Check List, 1873, No. 151.— IIensuaw, 1S75, 244. 



Chrr/somitris psallria var. psaltria, Ridgway, Am. Jour. Arts and Sci., Dec., 

 1872, 4.14.— H. B. & R., nist. N. Am. I?., If, 1874, 474, pi. xxii, figs. 9, 10. 



Clirysomitris psaltria. a. psaltria, Coi'i:s, B. N.W., 1S74, 110. 



This species we found only among the Wahsatch and Uintah Mount- 

 ains, where it was not common, and usually found associated in small 

 lumibers with the large flocks of C pinus. Attention was first called to it 

 by its extraordinary note, a plaintive, mellow whistle, difficult to describe, 

 but totally unlike that of any other bird we have heard. When the bird 

 takes flight this note is changed to a simple fifing cheer, in a fine, high key, 

 and somewhat resembling the' anxious note uttered by the male Red- 

 winged Black-bird {Agdocus phoEniceiis) when its nest is disturbed. 



' Geographically inappropriate. 



