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Flycatcher, seen here, was the only one of this species noted by 

 us in Siskiyou County. The most interesting discovery at 

 Edgewood was the presence of a small flock, or perhaps several 

 small bands, of Cedar Waxwings in the town. These were first 

 seen on May 25, feeding on the seeds or buds of some maple 

 trees in a little grove in the middle of the village. We noticed 

 some birds of this species every day we were there but saw no 

 evidence of nesting. On May 26 a flock of 18 individuals was 

 seen on the edge of the village, flying north, but whether there 

 was only one flock in the locality moving about or whether suc- 

 ceeding flocks rested and fed there during migration, we did not 

 succeed in determining. Most certainly some roosted there 

 over night, as we saw them settling down in the trees toward 

 dusk. 



The meadows were searched for signs of Microtus, but none 

 was found and our traps attracted neither this genus nor mice. 

 Traps set along fences and in the fields brought no returns 

 whatever. Gophers, however, were numerous in one handy 

 corner, and several Red Bluff (?) Pocket Gophers, Thomomys 

 Icucodon naviis ( ?), were taken here. 



As there was not enough of interest at Edgewood to detain 

 us long, we moved, on May 28, to Bray, a sawmill village in 

 the lava country, about 20 miles northeast of Mt. Shasta, with 

 an elevation of 4650 feet. Not finding accommodation in the 

 town, we camped on the edge of an irrigated meadow, about a 

 mile away in the valley of Butte Creek. For a long distance 

 around Bray the standing timber of any value has been de- 

 stroyed, and, except for a few large pines in the town, trees 

 of any size are scarce. Even small timber is much scattered on 

 account of the poorness of the rocky soil. Here a low, thin 

 sage brush is a predominant characteristic of the lava country, 

 the bushes for the most part too stunted and scraggly to afford 

 much shelter for birds. Very little bird life could be found in 

 this sage brush, but occasional spots among the remnants of 

 timber or in the willows, aspens, and cottonwoods along the 

 stream harbored a fair number for such a region. At Bray we 

 discovered the Mountain Bluebird for the first and only time 

 on this trip, nesting in old dead tree stubs. The usual Sierran 

 forms for corresponding altitudes were for the most part pres- 



