36 



NORTH AMERICAN FAUNA. 



[No. 7. 



Panamint Mountains, April 14; and another on the north side of Tele- 

 scope Peak, April 18 ; and the writer saw one in Surprise Canon, April 20. 



Mr. Nelson saw the species once or twice in the pinon belt along 

 Waucoba Creek, in the Inyo Mountains, in the latter part of June; and a 

 few in the foothills on the west slope of the Sierra Nevada, in August. 

 Mr. Bailey and the writer observed two or three on the western slope of 

 Walker Pass in the same range July 2-3; one was observed in Kings 

 Eiver Canon, August 15; and another at Three Elvers in the western 

 foothills, September 13. Mr. Koch secured a pair near their camp in 

 Cottonwood Meadows July 30; Mr. Palmer reported seeing two at Old 

 Port Tejon ; and Mr. Bailey found it not uncommon at Whitney Meadows 

 and at Soda Springs, in August. 



Mr. Stephens saw one at Grapevine Spring, California, the first week 

 in April; one at Olancha, at the southern end of Owens Lake, the third 

 week in May, and one at Bishop Creek, early in August. Mr. Bailey 

 saw several at Monterey, during the first week of October. Mr. Nelson 

 found it common in the San Joaquin Valley between Bakersfield and 

 San Emigdio in October, and saw a few along the coast from San Sim- 

 eon to Carpenteria and Santa Paula in November and December. 



Record of sjjecimens collected of Accijriter velox. 



Col- 

 lector's 

 No. 



Sex. 



Locality. 



Date. 



Collector. 



Remarks. 



22 

 23 



cf ad. 

 ? ad. 



Sierra Nevada, Calif 



do ' 



July 30, 1891 

 do 



B. H. Dutclior.. 

 do 



Big Cottonwoood 



Meadows. 

 Do. 













Accipiter cooperi. Cooper's Hawk. 



This hawk was even more rare than the sharp-shinned, as scarcely 

 two dozen were seen during the time the expedition was in the field. 

 In Cajon Pass in the San Bernardino Mountains, on January 2, the 

 writer decoyed one by imitating the squealing of a mouse; one was seen 

 at Hesperia on the Mohave Desert, January 4; one or two at the 

 ranch at Furnace Creek, Death Valley, the latter part of the same 

 month, and a few were seen at Ash Meadows, Nevada, during the first 

 half of March. Mr. Stephens saw one wmich had been killed at Searl's 

 garden, on Borax Flat, April 23-26, and one at Bishop Creek, in Owens 

 Valley, the first week in August. 



In the Sierra Nevada Mr. Nelson noted the species on the divide be- 

 tween the Merced and San Joaquin rivers; Mr. Bailey saw one on the 

 Kaweah Eiver; two at Whitney Meadows; the writer saw one at the 

 latter place September 2, and secured a specimen at Three Eivers, in 

 the western foothills, July 28. Its stomach contained the remains of a 

 Beechey's spermophile. 



Mr. Nelson found a few among the oaks in the lower part of the 

 Tehachapi and Temploa mountains in October, and along the route be- 

 ween San Simeon and Carpenteria in November. 



