DESCrJPTION OF CAMPS. 



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for the Virginia City market Is tlie cliief production of the settlement, lie 

 on the eastern side of the valley, between the Sierra Nevada and the 

 Comstock, or VIrg-inia Mountains, the first of the desert ranges. Through 

 the middle portion of these extensive meadows the Truckee River courses, 

 its banks being fringed with dense thickets of rather tall willows, growing 

 about fifteen feet high. Daring the sunnner these hi.vnriant meadows were 

 the abode of numerous water-fowl, while in the thickets IMagpIes {Pica 

 liiidsonlca) and smaller birds were abundant. The species found in this 

 locality were the following: — 



1. Telinatoclytes paludicola. 



2. Dendroeca asstiva. 



3. Geotlilypis tricbas. 



4. Icteria lougicaiula. 



5. Pyrauga ludoviciaua. 

 C. Hiruudo honeornm. 



7. Pctroclii'lidou lunifrons. 



8. Stelgidopteryx senipeiiuis. 



9. Cotyle iii)aria. 



10. Vireosylvia swainsoni. 



11. Collurio excubitoroides. 



12. Passerculus alaudinus. 



13. Pooecetes coiifiuis. 



14. Melospiza beermanui. 



15. Cboudcstes grammaca. 



IG. Hedyineles luelanocepbalus. 



17. Cyanospiza amcena. 



IS. Pipilo oregomis. 



10. Xantbocoi)baUis ieteiocepbiilus. 



20. Agcla'ns plia-iiiceus. 



21. Sturiiclla iR'glc(;ta. 



22. Icterus bullocld. 



23. Pica budsoiiica. 



24. Empidoiiax piisillus. 



25. CbonU'ilt's lienryi. 

 20. Ceryle aloyoii. 



27. Colaptes mexicauus. 



28. Circus hudsouius. 



29. Zeua>,dura caroliueasis. 



30. iEgialitis vociferus. 



31. Eecurvirostra americaua. 



32. Himautopus mexicauus. 



33. Rhyacopbilus solitarius. 



34. Tringoides inacularius. 



35. Botaurus uiinor. 

 30. Porzaua caroliua. 



37. Auas boscbas. 



38. Cbaulelasmus strepenis. 



39. Mareca aiuericaua. 



40. Daflhi acuta. 



41. Spatula clypeata. 



42. Querqueduhi cyanoptera. 



43. Nettion carolinensis. 



*05. ? Canace obscura. f" Camce canadensis, var. franldUuP Probably G. 



obscura, wbicb is abuudautou tlie Sierra Nevada.] 

 *00. Oreortyx pictus. Abnudant after Oct. 1st. 

 07. Lopbortyx calit'oniicus. Abundant. , 



68. iR-ialitis vocilerus. Oct. 

 *G9. GMlliiniL^o wiisoiii. Now; two specs. 

 *70. Binnta caiiadeusis. Nov. 

 *71. Auas boscbas. Not seen. 



*72. Pelecanus erytlirorbyucbus. Oct.; one Jloclc passing over. 

 Tbe more iiotewortby of tbe above species are Ghammi fasciata, Sayornis nigricans, 

 and Calypte anncv, wbicb would bardly bave been .supposed to occur so bigh up among 

 tbese mountains. 

 22 r K. 



