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Fig. 1. Typical Boreal meadow at about 8200 feet altitude in Tahquitz 

 Valley; photograph taken July 27, L908. The conspicuous plant is Veratrum 

 californicum, and living in its clumps were Melospiza I. lincolni and Son 

 ornatus. The surrounding trees are Jeffrey and lodgepole pines and silver 

 firs. In these wen- Regulus c. cinera -eus, Empidonax wrighti, and Sphyrapi- 

 CUS Hi, in,, ,1, us. 



Fi g- -■ Lower Palm Canon near its mouth at the east base of San 

 Jacinto Peak; altitude 800 feel abov. sea-level; photograph taken June 16, 

 L908. Washington palms, Pluchea, catelaw, and mesquite served to diag 

 Qose ,1 "' locality as within the Colorado Desert fauna! area. Some Lower 

 Sonoran llinls : "" 1 mammals at this point were: Icterus c. nelsoni, Auriparus 

 /. flaviceps, Polioptila plumbea, Lophortyx gamoeli, Peromyscus e. eremicus 

 and Pipistrellus h. hesperus. In addition there was present along the stream 

 the San Diego song sparrow (Melospiza m. cooperi), whirl, was here resident 

 under desert conditions of extreme type. 



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