130 NORTH AMERICAN FAUNA. 



Record of specimen* colli <inl of ITarpo rhyu chits Ircontei. 



[Kp. 7. 



Col- 





lector's 



Sex. 



No. 





19 



d 



•JO 



d 



23 



d 





d 



121 



d 



133 



d 





d 





9 





d JUV. 





2 im. 





cf 



29 



cf 





rf 



104 



? 



53 



d 



284 



d im. 





9 



126 



cf im. 





9 





cf 





cf 



44 



cf 





d ,i«v. 





cf juv. 





$ im. 





d 



17 



9 



ie 



9 



99 



9 



100 



9 



101 



d 



107 



9 



Locality. 



Resting Springs, Calif 



do 



Twelve-mile Spring, Calif. 



Ash Meadows, Nev 



do 



do 



Pahrump Valley, Nov 



do 



do 



Vegas Valley . Nev 



Beaverdam * Mountains, 

 "Utah. 



Table Mountain, Nov 



Buena Vista Lake, Calif . - - 



Hesperia, Calif 



Salt Wells Valley, Calif . . . 



Owens Valley, Calif 



do 



do 



Coso Mountains 



...do 



Panamint Valley, Calif 



Daggett, Calif ,.. 



Mohave Desert, Calif... 



do 



Death Valley, Calif .... 



do...... 



Garlick Springs, Calif.. 



do 



Besting Springs, Calif. 



do 



do 



do 



Dato. 



Feb. 14,1891 

 ....do 



Feb. 20,1891 



Mar. 19, 1891 

 Mar. 10,1891 

 Mar. 19,1891 

 Feb. 11,1891 



....do 



Apr. 29, 1891 

 May 1,1891 

 May 10, 1891 



May 6, 1891 

 Oct'. 26,1891 

 Sept. 15, 1891 

 May 4, 1891 

 June 2,1891 

 Dec. 27,1890 

 July 3,1891 



Dec. 31, 1890 



....do 



Jan. 10,1891 

 Jan. 7, 1891 

 June 27, 1891 



....do 



June 21, 1891 

 Jan. 30,1891 

 Feb. 10,1891 



....do 



Feb. 7,1891 



....do 



....do 



Feb. 11,1891 



Collector. 



F. Stephens 



...do 



...do 



E. W. Nelson 



A. K. Fisher .... 



...do 



E. W. Nelson 



...do 



C. Hart Merriam . 



...do 



...do 



F. Stephens . 



E. W.Nelson. 



F. Stephens .. 



...do 



A. ~K. Fisher . 

 E.W.Nelson. 

 F. Stephens. . 



E.W.Nelson. 



V.Bailey 



do ..'. 



A. K. Fisher . 

 T. S. Palmer . 



...do 



V. Bailey 



E. W.Nelsou. 



F. Stephens . . 



...do 



A. K. Fisher . 



...do 



...do 



...do 



Remarks. 



North of Besting 

 Springs. 



Amargosa Desert. 

 San Joaquin Valley 



Tveeler. 

 Lone Pine. 

 22 miles north of 

 Bishop. 



Willow Spring. 



Do. 

 Bennett Wells. 

 Saratoga Springs. 



Harporhynclius crissalis. Crissal Thrasher. 



The crissal thrasher was not found in the Mohave or Amargosa 

 deserts, nor in Death, Panamint, or other valleys west of the Charles- 

 ton Mountains, where LeConte's thrasher is so common. Dr. Merriam 

 found it from Vegas Valley, Nevada, eastward. He observed it in the 

 valley of the Virgin, near St. Joe, Nev., May 7, and near Bunker- 

 ville, May 8; and found it a common breeder in the Lower Santa Clara 

 Valley, Utah, where a nest containing two fresh eggs was discovered 

 in a bush of Atrlplex torreyi, about 3 feet above the ground, May 

 16. Mr. Nelson also found a nest containing three eggs, at Cottonwood 

 Spring, at the east base of the Charleston Mountains, March 8. The 

 bird was shot from the nest, which was placed partly on one of the 

 large branches of a desert willow (CMlopsis saligna) and partly on top 

 of an Atriplex canescens bush growing under it. The structure was 

 formed externally of coarse twigs, a few inches long, and lined with 

 henrp-like strips of bark from a plant growing in the vicinity. 



Heleodytes brnnneicapillus. Cactus Wren. 



The cactus wren is an abundant and characteristic bird of the 

 Lower Sonoran Zone, breeding wherever there are suitable forests of 

 tree yuccas or arborescent cactuses, and sometiDies in other forms of 

 spiny vegetation, as the desert acacia (Acacia greggii). It was first 



