346 PROCEEDINGS OF UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 
This region is well watered and well timbered with medium-sized 
oaks and pines, the latter constituting about a tenth of the forest, being 
distributed unevenly among the oaks. Bunch grass was everywhere 
abundant. On February 1, the date of our arrival here, a Blackberry 
(Rubus), a Black Currant (Ribes), the Madrona (Arbutus menziesi), a 
Monkey Flower (Mimulus), the Painted Cap (Castilleia), a fine Lupine, 
(Lupinus), and a few other piants, were in flower and thriving, although 
the tender shoots of some of the annuals had been nipped by frost. 
An interesting Nolena reminded us we were still in the tropies, 
although we had left the cactus and mesquite thickets with their char- 
acteristic species far beneath us, or below an altitude of 1,5U0 feet. 
Upon meeting the first pines, I discovered almost simultaneously the 
long sought Cape Robin (Merula confinis Baird), the beautiful new 
Snowbird (Junco bairdi), and other interesting species. 
The purpose is not to give at this time an extended account of expe- 
riences here; but, instead, the following list is presented. It contains all 
the species known by me to occur in these mountains, although a change 
of season may change the avifauna, some species perhaps going north 
in spring, others from the surrounding low lands replacing them. Per- 
haps some species escaped my notice by being in the deep gorges so 
numerous in the Victoria Mountains. 
1. Hylocichla unalasce (Gm.). 
Common; possibly resident. 
2. Merula confinis ( Baird.) 
Only about a dozen Cape Robins were seen, and these were all on the 
Laguna trail. About half were found singly, one as low as 2,500 feet 
above sea level. 
Mr. Cipriano Fisher, an American, who had often hunted deer at 
Laguna, informed me that Robins were sometimes abundant there. 
This may be the case when the berries of the California Holly (Hetero- 
meles), which grows abundantly in the neighborhood, are ripe. 
The type specimen, shot by Xantus at Todos Santos in summer, may 
have been a straggler from the mountains. Possibly there was a mistake 
made in recording it, as [ suspect was the case with the Oreortyx picta 
plumifera (see Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., Vol. 5, p. 533), which is not at 
present a bird of Cape St. Lucas; and this leads me to remark that I 
consider the term ‘Cape species,” when it covers all the. birds from La 
Paz and south of it, an inappropriate One—inappropriate for the good 
reason that so few of the so-called Cape species really occur at Cape 
St. Lucas—its only special advantage as a collecting ground being its 
well-sheltered harbor, which affords good opportunities for shooting 
marine species. 
3. Polioptila ccerulea (Linn.). 
Common, and probably the only Polioptila seen; but it is not possible 
to be positive, as all the Polioptile of Southern Lower California look 
