` 
` glauca L., Synthyris plantaginea Benth., Mertensia paniculata 
_ that the animals, like the plants, are comparatively few in species, 
and mostly of northern forms. It is possible that, somewhat later, 
- insects, but I was then so near the end of the spring migration, 
even in early spring and in an average rainy year like the past. 
dians who live at these loca 
pa i ot 
14 ANIMAL LIFE OF THE CUYAMACA MOUNTAINS. 
T. & G., Antennaria dioica L., Senecio lugens Rich., Kalmia 
Dougl., Gilia nudicaulis Gray, Androsace septentrionalis L., Prim- 
ula Parryi Gray, Gentiana humilis Stev., Phacelia sericea Gray. 
In succeeding articles the flora of the Owl Creek range and of 
the high mountain district between the Big-Horn and Yellowstone 
basins will be noticed. 
ANIMAL LIFE OF THE CUYAMACA MOUNTAINS. 
BY DR. J. G. COOPER. 
Wuen collecting at San Diego Bay in the spring of 1862, I much 
regretted that the severe floods of that noted season so broke up 
the roads into the mountains, that I could not get up to them with 
the necessary materials for making a full collection of the animals 
and plants. I then supposed that the greater moisture and large 
forests of the mountains would favor the existence of numerous — 
species as yet uncollected within the Union, if not entirely new. a 
I was disappointed in not finding more of them near the coast, and 7 
attributed their absence to the barrenness of the country, and want ; 
of trees, essential to many species. I supposed also that some of — 
the Mexican or Lower Californian species said to be found near — 
the boundary must exist there. - 
My late trip through the mountains, has, however, satisfied me 
agglers from Lower California might appear among birds and 
in this latitude, that no common visitors are likely to have escaped 
notice. — As to the non-migratory animals, they have evidently been 
endered very scarce by the want of water over most of the range, 
Those that drink could find water in the fall only at intervals of — 
ten to twenty miles, where es must fall an easy prey to the ~ 7 
The n reptiles, insects an ‘and mollusea, are however less | 
TRE os mals, as the former can obtain 
