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453, S ad.; 8^^— 12§— 4J,j— 3/^. Same remarks, etc. 



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



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

 ground. 



519, eggs (4) ; Carson City, April 2it. Nest on ground beneath sage-bush. 



520, egg.s (3) ; Carsou City, April 24. Nest in sage-bush, about two feet from 

 ground. 



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



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

 cemetery. 



821, eggs (3); Austin, Nevada, July 3, 18G8. Nest in small bush of Symphori- 

 carpuH mo7itanus, about two feet from ground. 



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

 Salt Lalie, June 7, 18G9. 



1125, nest; Antelope Ishuul, Great Salt Lalie, June 7, 1809. Nest in sage-bush, 

 situated as usual. 



1135, nest and eggs (3); Antelope Island, June 8. 



1153, nest; Antelope Island, June 8. Nest iu sage-bush. 



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

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



Family SAXICOLIDiE— Stone-Chats. 



SlALIA MEXICANA. 



(California Blue-bird. 



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

 223; Cat. N. Am. B., 1859, No. 159; Review, 1864, 63.— Cooper, Oru. 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, 05, pi. v, tig. 2.— Henshaw, 1875, 101. 



The Westei-ii Blue-bird is known to have a range nearly co-extensive 

 with the limits of the Western Region, it being abundant throughout 

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

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

 coast. Yet we lost sight of this species entirely after we left the easte)-n 

 water-shed of the Sierra Nevada, sind 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 



