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the Pinus monticola on the Kaweah River; a few were seen in the 

 Giant forest, August 3; and several at Trout Meadows, September 7. 

 Mr. fielding found a nest and four eggs, June 4, near Crocker's, on the 

 Big Oak Flat and Yosemite Valley stage road. It was placed in a 

 nearly perpendicular bank of a gold mine, within a short distance of 

 the hoisting works, which were in constant use. 



In Nevada Town send's solitaire was not uncommon among the cedars 

 on the Charleston Mountains in March, and a specimen was secured in 

 Oasis Valley, March 15, the only one seen there. 



Record of specimens collected of Myadestes totvnsendii. 



Col- 





lector's 



Sex. 



No. 





23 



? 



24 



? 



148 



cf 



32 



e 



149 



d im. 



Locality. 



Cajon Pass, Calif 



.do 



Panamint Mountains, Calif . 



Oasis Valley, Nev 



Sierra Nevada, Calif 



Date. 



Jan. 2, 1891 

 ....do 



Mar. 31, 1891 

 Mar. 15, 1891 

 Aug. 8,1891 



Collector. 



A. K. Fisher 



...do 



...do 



P. Stephens . 

 ...do 



Remarks. 



Johnson Canon. 



Bishop Creek; al- 

 titude, 9,000 feet. 



Turdus ustulatus. Russet-backed Thrush. 



A female russet backed thrush was shot by the writer at Maturango 

 Springs, California, in the Argus Eange, May 15, 1891, the only one 

 observed there, and Mr. Stephens saw one at Olancha, in Owens Val- 

 ley, about the same time. 



Turdus ustulatus swainsonii. Olive-hacked Thrush. 



Mr. Belding reported this thrush as common in the Yosemite Valley, 

 California, in June, and Mr. Nelson secured a female on the northern 

 end of the Panamint Mountains, May 18. 



Turdus aonalaschkee. Dwarf Hermit Thrush. 



The dwarf thrush was seen only during migration. Several were 

 seen in Johnson Caiion, in the Panamint Eange, California, where a 

 specimen was secured March 28. In the Argus Eange, it was not un- 

 common in Shepherd Caiion the last week in April, and at Maturango 

 Spring one was secured May 8. Mr. Butcher shot another at Big Cot- 

 tonwood Meadows September 11, which was probably a migrant, as the 

 summer resident was auduboni, or at least what the committee on no- 

 menclature of the American Ornithologists' Union consider Audubon's 

 thrush. 



Mr. Bailey found the dwarf thrush common at Monterey the first of 

 October, and Mr. Nelson observed it commonly in the vicinity of San 

 Luis Obispo the last of the month, and along the route from San Simeon 

 to Carpenteria and Santa Paula in November and December. 

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