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0. Looking westward to Mounts Dana and Gibbs from meadow at Farrington Kaneh, 

 southwest of Mono Lake; photographed June 22, 191G. Meadow in foreground is in 

 Transition Zone; low hills beyond, interru{)tedl3' idothod v\ith Jeffrey pine, are in 

 Canadian Zone; the forests, chiefly of loiigepole pine, on the slopes of the peaks repre- 

 sent the Hudsonian Zone, and the upper bare portions of the two mountains are in the 

 Alpine-Arctic Zone. (This figure is reversed, left to right.) 



h. Side of Williams Butte facing northeast toward Mono Lake; Transition Zone. 

 Trees on the Butte are pinon pines, while in the foreground are bushes of Kunzia and 

 sageln'iish, with a strip of willows in the middle distance. Some birds characteristic 

 of the pinon covered hill in September were Black-billed Magpie, Woodhouse Jay, Pinon 

 Jay, and Short-tailed Mountain Chickadee, while in the sagebrush were Nevada Sage 

 Sparrow, Brewer Sparrow, Green-tailed Towhee, and Sage Thrasher. 



For discussion of the life zones in this vicinity, see text, pp. 8-1(1. 



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