Mat, 1893.] 



BIRDS OF THE DEATH VALLEY EXPEDITION. 



119 



April 29. He saw others at Upper Cottonwood Springs, at the east base 

 of the Charleston Mountains, April 39; at Vegas ranch, May 1; at the 

 Bend of the Colorado lliver, May 4; in the valley of the Virgin and 

 Lower Muddy, May 6 and 8, and on Mount Magruder, June 4-8. In 

 Pahranagat Valley it was breeding commonly, May 22-26, this being the 

 only locality in Nevada at which he observed it in any numbers. He 

 found it common where Beaverdam Creek joins the Virgin in north- 

 western Arizona, May 19, and breeding plentifully in the Lower Santa 

 Clara Valley, Utah, near St. George, May 11-15. Mr. Palmer found it 

 very common at Old Fort Tejon the first of July. All through Kern 

 Valley, Walker Basin, and at Bakersfield, in the San Joaquin Valley, 

 this warbler was common in the willows along the streams during the 

 first three weeks of July, and sparingly in the latter valley as late as 

 October. 



Record of specimens collected of Dendroiea cesliva. 



Col- 

 lector's 

 No. 



Sex. 



Locality. 



Date. 



Collector. 



Bemarks. 



293 



d 

 d 

 9 



Owens Valley, Calif 



June 5, 1891 



June 12, 1891 



July 9, 1891 



..do 



A. K. Fisher 



F. Stephens 



do 





91 







128 



do 





129 



do 



do 



Do. 













Dendroiea auduboni. Audubon's Warbler. 



The western yellow-rumped warbler was common as a migrant in 

 various localities and not uncommon as a breeder in some of the moun- 

 tain ranges. At San Bernardino a flock was seen in a clump of wil- 

 lows, and a number associated with chipping sparrows were seen glean- 

 ing insects from a field of early cabbage, December 28, 1899. A few 

 were found among the willows bordering the reservoir at Furnace 

 Creek, Death Valley, California, during the latter part of January, and 

 again on April 19, and a single one was seen at Ash Meadows, Nevada, 

 March 21. It was not uncommon at Hot Springs in Panamint Valley, 

 April 29-23, and at Maturango Spring, in the Argus range, the first 

 half of May. 



In Nevada Audubon's warbler was seen by Mr. Nelson at Pahrump 

 and Vegas ranches in February and March; and by Dr. Merriam in 

 Pahrump Valley at Yount's Eanch, April 28-29 ; at Mountain Spring in 

 the Charleston Mountains, and at Upper Cottonwood Springs at the 

 east base of these mountains, April 39. In Utah a few were observed 

 still lingering in the Santa Clara Valley, May 11-15, though the bulk 

 of the species had gone into the mountains before this date. 



In California Mr. Nelson saw a few migrants the last of May among 

 the piuons at the head of Willow Creek in the Panamint Mountains, 

 though none were seen later by him in these or in the Grapevine Moun- 

 tains. The same observer saw a few in the Inyo Mountains from the 



