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up the Humboldt River to Oreana, where a camp was tixed near the town, 

 l)ut our stay was short on account of the spread of the fever in a very mahg- 

 nant form, compelling the entire party to seek healthier water and purer air 

 in the high mountains to the eastward. A camp was accordingly made in 

 Wright's Canon, on the western slope of the West Humboldt Mountains, a 

 locality which proved to be well adapted for a collecting-ground. This camp 

 was deserted, however, about the middle of September, for one on the eastern 

 slope of the same range, for which the town of Unionville, in Buena Vista 

 Canon, was selected. This proved to be the best locality, for birds, yet 

 visited. We left this place about the last of October, and moved westward 

 again, along the same route, toward winter-quarters. At the Humboldt 

 Marshes, on the 31st of October, several new species were added to the 

 collection during the single evening of our stay, but no further collections 

 were made until again at the Truckee Meadows, where we remained from 

 November 7th until the 21st of the same month; and from which place an 

 excursion to the Pea-vine Mountains, near the Sierra Nevada, was made 

 on the 20th inst., in company with Mr. H. CI. Parker. From this camp we 

 repaired to Carson City, and remained there until the 5th of Deceniber, 

 when, after iirst spending one day in the pine forests of the Sierra near 

 Genoa, Ave revisited the Truckee Reservation near Pyramid Lake, through 

 facilities extended by Mr. Parker, who accomj^anied the writer and assisted 

 him in making his collections. This trip was made via the Carson River to 

 below Fort Churchill, whence the desert was crossed to the Big Bend of the 

 Truckee; but in returning the river was followed to the Meadows (at Glen- 

 dale), thence to Hunter's Station, and across the valley to the Steamboat 

 Springs, and over the Virginia Mountains, to Virginia City and Carson. 



1868. — Winter-quarters at Carson City were left early in May, for the 

 Truckee Reservation, which was reached on the 14th inst. Large collections 

 were made here, the most important being from the island and "pyramid" 

 in the lake, which we were enabled to visit through the kindness of Mr. 

 Parker, who placed his handsome yacht "Nettie" at our service, and assisted 

 us to secure large numbers of the j^reviously very rare eggs of several species 

 of water-fowl breeding on these islands. Early in June wo repaired to 

 Vii-ginia City, and thence to Austin, in the Toyabe Mountains, which were 



