118 NORTH AMERICAN FAUNA. [xo. 16. 
57. Contopus borealis. Olive-sided Flycatcher. 
Common at Wagon Camp, where several pairs reared families early 
in the season, and where, on July 22, Miss Merriam saw a parent bird 
feeding young in the nest, which was ina fir tree 30 to 40 feet from the 
ground. In July the species was also seen at Sisson, and in Mud 
Creek Canyon near the mouth of Clear Creek, on tbe north side of the 
mountain. 
58. Contopus richardsoni. Western Wood Pewee. 
A fairly common breeder at Sisson, where Florence A. Merriam saw 
old birds feeding young in the nest (in a fir tree) July 15. 
59, Empidonax difficiliss Western Yellow-bellied Flycatcher. 
On July 29 I shot one in a thicket of cherry bushes (Cerasus emar- 
ginata) on the boundary between the Canadian and Transition zones, a 
little west of Wagon Camp, where it was doubtless breeding. 
60. Empidonax hammondi. Hainmond. Flycatcher. 
A common breeder near Wagon Camp, in the lower edge of the 
Shasta firs, where several were collected late in July. Near Squaw 
Creek Camp, at the upper edge of the Shasta firs, one was shot August 
21, and in Mud Creek Canyon at the mouth of Clear Creek, one was 
shot August 7. 
61. Empidonax wrighti. Wright Flycatcher. 
One was shot at Wagon Camp July 24 by John H. Sage. 
62. Otocoris alpestris merrilli. Dusky Horned Lark. 
Common in places in Shasta Valley, particularly about Montague, 
where a number were secured by Walter K. Fisher. This is doubtless 
the form reported by C. H. Townsend, under the name rubea, as 
found “in limited numbers on the sage-covered districts north of Mount 
Shasta in midsummer.” The locality referred to, he tells me, is in 
Shasta Valley, about 15 miles from the mountain. 
63. Pica pica hudsonica. Magpie. 
One was seen flying over the east side of Shasta Valley, near Sheep 
Rock, September 29 by Vernon Bailey and W. H. Osgood. 
64, Cyanocitta stelleri. Steller Jay. 
The form of Steller jay of the Shasta region is intermediate between 
true stelleri and the Sierra subspecies, /rentalis. 
It is one of the commonest, noisiest, and best-known birds of the 
region. Early in the season it was rarely seen above the lower part of 
the Canadian zone, and was most numerous in the Transition; but on 
August 2 one came all the way up to Squaw Creek Camp, in the alpine 
hemlocks, and a few days later a small flock was encountered, scream- 
ing, in Mud Creek Canyon at the mouth of Clear Creek. The latter 
half of September they were common at high altitudes and paid daily 
visits to our cainp on upper Squaw Creek. At Sisson, apparently, they 
are always common. 
