BREWSTER: BIRDS OF THE CAPE REGION, LOWER CALIFORNIA. 7 
La Paz. — At La Paz Mr. Frazar collected from January 28 to Feb-: 
ruary 26, and from March 19 to April 7, making his headquarters in the 
town, and covering as much of the surrounding country as could be 
reached in a day’s walk or drive. He describes it as excessively dry 
and barren, in fact “burnt to a crisp” by a drought, which had con- 
tinued unbroken for upwards of two years. The cattle had nearly all 
died of thirst or starvation, for there was no surface water anywhere 
and no grass, the only vegetation consisting of scattered bushes and 
cacti of various kinds. 
Over much of this desolate region birds were exceedingly scarce, but 
in a few favored localities — such as that at the base of the range of 
hills immediately behind the town, where there were exceptionally 
dense and luxuriant thickets of bushes and occasional small trees — Mr. 
Frazar found in greater or less abundance such characteristic Lower 
California forms as the St. Lucas Thrasher, Baird’s Verdin, St. Lucas 
Cactus Wren, St. Lucas Swallow, St. Lucas House Finch, St. Lucas 
Towhee, St. Lucas Cardinal, St. Lucas Pyrrhuloxia, Xantus’s Jay, St. 
Lucas Flycatcher, Xantus’s Hummingbird, aud St. Lucas Woodpecker. 
Along the borders of the neighboring bay were a few scattered fringes 
or clusters of mangroves intersected by tidal creeks and flooded at high 
water. These thickets furnished congenial haunts for Mangrove War- 
blers, Grinnell’s Water-Thrushes, Belding’s Rails, and Frazar’s Green 
Herons, none of which, excepting the Water-Thrushes, were met with 
elsewhere by Mr. Frazar. : 
The shores or waters of this bay were also frequented by Large-billed 
Sparrows, Killdeer, Semipalmated and Wilson’s Plovers, Gray Yellow- 
legs, Long-billed and Hudsonian Curlews, Reddish Egrets, Wood 
Ibises, Western Gulls, Caspian and Royal Terns, California Brown 
Pelicans, Man-o’-war Birds, Brandt’s Cormorants, Pied-billed Grebes 
and other kinds of wading or water birds. 
Triunfo. —On April 11 Mr. Frazar went to Triunfo, “a mining camp 
situated among the mountains, fifty miles south of La Paz, and at about 
the beginning of the oak level,” although no trees of any kind were to 
be seen in the immediate neighborhood, all having been cut for use in 
the mine. The surrounding hills were excessively dry and barren, and 
even the arroyos had little vegetation, although they were inhabited by 
fair numbers of birds. 
Within four miles of the camp, however, was a cafion, near the head 
of which water “bubbled from the ground” in sufficient quantity to 
form a brook of considerable size. For a distance of perhaps a quarter 
