3G2 NORTH AMERICAN FAUNA. [No. 7. 



who assisted in making the collections described in this report.! A 

 list of several names under one locality usually indicates that the place 

 was visited by different members at different dates — particularly in the 

 case of points in Death Valley, Owens Valley, and the Sierra Nevada. 



Note. — Refereuce letters and figures follow names of places which 

 appear on the accompanying map. Altitudes based on observations 

 made by the expedition are marked with an asterisk. 



Adobe Station, Kern County, Calif. Altitude, 281 feet (86 meters). 



An abandoned stage station ou the wagon road from Bakersfield to Los Angeles, 

 situated northeast of Kern Lake in the San Joaquin Valley Nelson. 



Alila, Tulare County, Calif. Altitude, 280 feet ('85 meters). 



A station on the Southern Pacific Railroad, 30 miles (48 kilometers) south of Visa- 

 lia Bailey, Fisher, Nelson. 



Alvord, Inyo County, Calif. Altitude, 3,936 feet (1,206 meters). 



The station on the Carson and Colorado Railroad for Big Pine, 54 miles (86 kilo- 

 meters) north of Keeler on Owens Lake Stephens. 



Amargosa Borax Works, Inyo County, Calif. F, 12. 



An abandoned station and borax works of the Pacific Coast Borax Company, situ- 

 ated on the Amargosa River, about 20 miles (32 kilometers) north of the Great Bend 

 and 6 miles (10 kilometers) west of Resting Springs. 



Palmer, Bailey, Fisher, Nelson. 

 Amargosa Range, Inyo County, Calif. D-E, 11. 



The name given to the central part of the range which forms the eastern wall of 

 Death Valley. It is usually restricted^to that portion of the range between Boundary 

 Canon on the north (beyond Avhich are the Grapevine Mountains), and Furnace Creek 

 on the south, which marks the beginning of the Funeral Mountains. The highest 

 point, Pyramid Peak, has an altitude of 6,754 feet, or 2,058 meters. (See also Funeral 

 Mountains.) 



Amargosa River. D-F, 11-12. 



A 'stream' (usually nothing more than a dry wash) running from Oasis Valley, 

 Nevada, southward through Ash Meadows to the end of the Funeral Mountains, 

 where it turns at the ' Great Bend ' to the west and northwest and sinks in Death 

 Valley. 



Antelope Valley, Los Angeles County, Calif. II, 7-8. 



The name applied to the western part of the Mohave Desert immediately north of 

 the Sierra Liebre Merhiam, Palmer. 



Argus Mountains, Inyo County, Calif. E-F, 10. 



The range situated immediately west of Panamint Valley between the Coso and 

 Panamint mountains. Its highest point, Maturango Peak, has an altitude of 8,844 

 feet (2,696 meters) Palmer, Fisher. 



tMr. Albert Koebele, the entomologist, joined the expedition at Daggett on April 

 3, and remained only about six weeks. He crossed the Mohave Desert to Death Val- 

 ley with one of the parties and then proceeded to Keeler by way of Panamint Valley, 

 Shepherd Canon, and Darwin, making collections along the road wherever practi- 

 cable. He visited Daggett, Paradise Valley, Granite Wells, and Lone Willow Spring 

 in San Bernardino County ; Furnace Creek, Bennett, and Mesquite Wells in Death 

 Valley; Windy Gap; Hot Springs in Panamint Valley ; Shepherd Canon and Matu- 

 rango Spring in the Argus Mountains ; Darwin and Keeler. 



