74 NORTH AMERICAN FAUNA. [Xo. 7. 



Record of specimens collected of Xantlioceplialus xanihocephalus. 



Col- 

 lector's 



No. 



Sex. 



Locality. 



Date. 



Collector. 



Remarks. 





d" ad. 



Death Valley, Calif 



Lone Pine, Calif 



Apr. 1,1891 

 June 9,1891 



"V. Bailey 



Bennett Wells. 



325 



A.K.Lisher 









Agelaius phcenicetis. Red-winged Blackbird. 



The red- winged blackbird is probably resident in most if* not all of 

 tlie tule marshes in southern California and Nevada. A small flock 

 of eight or ten individuals was seen at Furnace Creek, Death Valley, 

 during the latter part of January; a single specimen was secured at 

 Besting Springs, California, in February. In Nevada a large flock 

 was found during March around the corral of Mr. George Watkins, at 

 Ash Meadows, where the birds fed upon grain left by the stock. Mr. 

 Nelson stated that several hundred of these birds came to roost each 

 night in the tules growing near the main spring at Pahrump Ranch, 

 February 1 2-28. Mr. Stephens found it common in Oasis Valley, March 

 15-19, and at Grapevine Spring, California, the first week in April. Dr. 

 Merriam saw it at Yountfs ranch, in Pahrump Valley, April 29, and 

 at the Bend of the Colorado, May 4. He found it breeding abundantly 

 in the valley of the Muddy, in eastern Nevada, May 6; in Meadow 

 Creek Valley, near Panaca, May 19; in Pahranagat Valley, May 23 

 and 24; in Oasis Valley, June 1; along the Santa Clara and Virgin, 

 near St. George, Utah, May 14, and saw a few at the west end of Ante- 

 lope Valley, near Gorman Station, California, June 28. 



At Hot Springs, in Panamint Valley, Calif., several were seen April 

 20-24. In Owens Valley, Mr. Stephens found the species not common 

 at Little Owens Lake, May 6-11; at Olancha May 16-23; abundant 

 at Alvord, June 26-28; common at Bishop, June 30; at Fish Slough, 

 July 2-3; at Morans, July 4-7; at Benton, July 9-10, and a few at 

 Haway Meadows, May 12-14; and on the meadow at Bishop Creek, 

 August 4-10. Mr. Nelson observed it at the head of Owens River up to 

 an altitude of 2,130 meters (7,000 feet) during the latter part of July, 

 and found it abundant about the farms at Lone Pine, in Owens Valley, 

 December, 1890, where the writer saw numbers which were breeding in 

 the tule marshes, the following June. The same observer also found it 

 common along the South Fork of the Kern River, California, July 3-11; 

 and Bakersfield, in the San Joaquin Valley, July 17-20. 



Mr. Bailey saw flocks of redwings at Monterey, September 28 to 

 October 9. Mr. Nelson found this species common and associated with 

 A. gubernator about Buena Vista Lake in the San Joaquin Valley; in 

 the wet places near San Emigdio, and along the coast between San 

 Simeon and Carpentaria. 



