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near the entrance to the canons, and also the sedge and tule marshes, in 

 the neighborhood of the lakes and rivers. The birds most characteristic of 

 the meadows are all mostly peculiar to them, being seldom if ever found in 

 other locahties. Besides the land-birds here enumerated, a multitude of the 

 water-fowl resort to the meadows during the breeding-season, but these are 

 best given in a separate list. The most characteristic birds of the meadows 

 are the following: — 



1. Telmatodytes paludicola Marshes. 



2. Coturniculu.s perpallidus Bry meadows. 



3. Passerculus alaudinus Wet meadoics. 



4. Agela'us phceniceus Marshes. 



5. Xanthocepbalus icteroceplial us.. iliars/tes. 



6. Sturuella neglecta Everyichere except in marshes. 



7. Pedioecetes columbiauus Dry meadows. 



8. Grus canadensis Wet meadows. 



9-11. Mural Avifauna. — This group is a rather heterogeneous one, 

 part of the species being saxicoline, while others nest in vertical banks of 

 earth ; and of the former only two species keep altogether among the rocks, 

 the others merely breeding there, the greater part of their time being spent 

 in obtaining then* food in other localities. 



They may be grouped as follows: — 



a. Species strictly saxicoline. 



1. Salpinctes obsoletus. Uiodlfying their habits in neighborhood of settlements. 



2. Catherpes conspersus. \^ •"' -^ 



b. Species saxicoline only in nesting habits. 



3. Tacbyciueta thalassiua. — (In other districts said to be arboreal.) 



4. Petrochelidon lunifrons. ~\ 



5. Hirundo horreoi'um. > Habits modified in settled districts. 



6. Sayoi nis sayus. J 



7. Panyptila saxatilis. 



c. Nesting in earth-banks. 



8. Cotyle riparia. 



9. Stelgidopteryx senipennis. 

 10. Ceryle alcyon. 



To group "&" of this list might be added such species as Aquila cana- 

 densis and Falco polyagrus, since these species usually build their eyries on 



