Vol. IX] MAILLIARD— AVIFAUNA OF THE INNER COAST RANGE 291 



found as scarce as in the other locahties visited, with rodents 

 in the same category. 



Wishing to get nearer to Sanhedrin's summit at the oppo- 

 site end we decided to go to Lierly's Ranch — a combination 

 ranch and old time hunters' resort which was the headquar- 

 ters of Bunnell upon the occasion of his visit to this mountain 

 before referred to. While it was only six or eight miles from 

 where we were, being without pack animals we had to go 

 back to Willits, to Potter Valley via Ukiah (almost), and 

 thence in to Lierly's — a round-about journey of over sixty miles 

 to reach our destination. On the way into the hills from Pot- 

 ter Valley birds seemed scarcer than ever, and the end of our 

 journey did not give much promise of more encouraging pros- 

 pects in that line. The only day upon which we could get 

 horses and a guide was May 25, on which date Little reached 

 the summit nearest to this point and found fox sparrows 

 numerous on the mountain. Several specimens were secured, 

 which proved to be the Yolla Bolly {Passer ella iliaca hrevi- 

 cauda), as had been anticipated. 



Except for the Northern Piliated Woodpecker there seemed 

 to be nothing of special interest in the immediate vicinity of 

 Lierly's, the only birds we saw being the commonest species 

 that one would expect to find in such a locality, and as this 

 place was too far away from the mountain top for satisfactory 

 work with our equipment we left for home on May 26, seeing 

 but little on the road through the forest save an occasional 

 Sierra Junco, or perhaps a Western Robin nesting by the 

 roadside. 



What might be called the last trip of the season was made 

 in company with my brother, John W. Mailliard, in his car to 

 Fout's Springs, which is near the base of Snow Mountain, in 

 the northwest corner of Colusa County, California. This place 

 is in a very small, relatively level, well-watered valley, drain- 

 ing into the Sacramento basin, with chamisal-covered hills on 

 the east and south and backed by mountains on the other two 

 sides, the most important of which is Snow Mountain, about 

 7000 feet high and lying a little over 20 miles southeast of 

 Mt. Sanhedrin. The country all around the valley is covered 

 with a very thin, gravelly soil ; and most of it has rather 

 recently been burned over. There are some black oaks, "blue" 

 oaks, and digger pines in the little valley, whose elevation is 



