122 NORTH AMERICAN FAUNA. [No. 16. 
71. Agelaius pheniceus. Red-winged Blackbird. 
Common in Shasta Valley September 17 to 20 (Osgood). ©. H. Town- 
send gives it as “‘an abundant summer resident of the cultivated coun- 
try north of Mount Shasta.” 
72, Sturnella magna neglecta. Western Meadowlark. 
Common in the meadowland at Sisson and Edgewood, and in the 
narrow meadows bordering Shasta River, in Shasta Valley. At Wagon 
Camp [ saw one in a grassy opening August 13, and a few days earlier 
Walter K. Fisher saw one in a similar place a little higher on the 
mountain. In the Sisson Meadows (‘Strawberry Valley’), during the 
first half of September, Rk. T. Fisher found meadowlarks “ gathered in 
flocks of as many as a hundred birds.” 
73. Icterus bullocki. Bullock Oriole. 
Common along streams in Shasta and Little Shasta valleys (W. K. 
Fisher). Vernon Bailey tells me that at Ager, in the north end of 
Shasta Valley, some silver poplars in a door yard are literally full of 
nests of this oriole, and that when he examined them June 26, 1899, the 
new nests contained young orioles and the old nests young house 
finches (Carpodacus m. obscurus). 
74. Scolecophagus cyanocephalus. Brewer Blackbird. 
Fairly common at Sisson and in Shasta Valley, but not observed on 
the mountain except in one instance, when several were seen at extreme 
timberline on the east side of 
Mud Creek Canyon August 
24 by Vernon Bailey and 
Florence A. Merriam. 
75, Coccothraustes vespertinus 
montanus. Western 
Evening Grosbeak. 
One of the commonest and 
most characteristic birds of 
the Shasta fir belt (Canadian 
zone), and mucb less common 
in the alpine hemlocks (Hud- 
sonian zone) At Wagon 
Camp, near the lower border 
of the Canadian zone, small 
flocks were seen or heard 
daily whenever the camp was 
it occupied, from the time of our 
% | arrival, the middle of July, 
; aaa until our departure, Septem- 
Fig. 41.—Western Evening Grosbeak (Coceoths«ustes 
vespertinus montanus.) Drawn by L. A. Fuertes. ber 25. At Squaw Creek 
Camp, inthe Hudsonian zone, 
they were much less common, but still by no means rare, and during 
early August their distinctive call, a short whistle, was heard every day. 
