144 NORTH AMERICAN FAUNA. 



Record of specimens collected of Polioptila ccerulea obscura. 



[No. 7. 



Col- 

 lector's 

 No. 



9 

 10 

 11 

 50 

 70 

 104 

 214 



Sox. 



Locality. 



San Bernardino, Calif .. 



do 



do 



Daireett, Calif 



Death Valley, Calif 



Panamint Valley, Calif 



Argus Range, Calif 



Panamint Valley, Calif 



Mission Santa Yncz, Calif. 

 St. George, Utah 



Date. 



Dec. 28,1800 

 ....do 



Dec. 29, 1890 

 Jan. 10,1891 

 Jan. 24,1891 

 Apr. 16,1891 

 May 8, 1891 

 Apr. 22.1891 

 Dec. 0, 1891 

 May 10. 1891 



Collector. 



Remarks. 



A.K. Fisher... 



...do 



...do 



....do I Mohave Desert. 



....do '. Furnace Creek. 



.do 



E. "W.Nelson 



...do 



V.Bailev 



Hoi Springs' 

 Maturango Spring. 

 Uot Springs. 



Polioptila plumbea. Plumbeous Guatcatcher. 



This gnatcatclier was couimon at Besting Springs, near the Amar- 

 gosa Biver, California, in February, where a number of specimens were 

 secured. In Yegas Valley, Nevada, Mr. Nelson and Mr. Bailey saw 

 several and secured one, March 13. At Bunkerville, Nev., Mr. Bailey 

 secured an adult male, May 9. The species may have been seen in 

 other places, but was not distinguished from the blue-gray gnatcatclier 

 In March, 1889, Mr. Bailey found it common at Fort Mohave, Ariz. 



Record of specimens collected of Polioptila plumbea. 



Col- 

 lector's 

 No. 



Sex. 



Locality. 



Date. 



Collector. 



Remarks. 



103 



2 

 9 

 2 

 ? 

 cT 





Feh. 8,1891 

 Feb. 12,1891 

 do 



A.K.Fisher 



V. Bailey 













do 



do 









Mar. 13, 1891 

 May 9,1891 



...do 







Bunkerville, Nev 



do : 











Polioptila californica. Black-tailed Gnatcatclier. 



The only place where the Californian gnatcatclier was observed was 

 Beche Canon, near San Bernardino, where Mr. Stephens found it 

 common, September 22-24. 



Myadestes townsendii. . Townsend's Solitaire, 



Townsend's solitaire was found nowhere common by the expedition. 

 In Cajon P ass, California, several were observed and two secured, 

 January 2. One was shot at Lone Pine, in Owens Valley, in Decem- 

 ber, 1890, and others were seen at- Hot Springs, Panamint Valley, in 

 January. 



In the Panamint Mountains, a few were seen in Johnson and Sur- 

 prise canons, in April. Mr. Nelson found a few among the pirions 

 about the head of Willow Creek, the 1st of May, and the writer saw a 

 family in Death Valley Canon, June 22. In the Sierra Nevada, Mr. 

 Nelson found it sparingly on the western slope opposite the head of 

 Owens Biver ; Mr. Stephens secured the young at Bishop Creek, the 1st 

 of August ; Mr. Bailey saw one among the sequoias and another among 



