76 



NORTH AMERICAN FAUNA. 



[No. 7. 



Mountains it was rare, only a few individuals being seen in May. It 

 was common all through Owens Valley and on the lower part of the 

 eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada. It was common all along Kern 

 River Valley, July 3-13 ; at Walker Basin, July 13-16 j in Tehachapi 

 Valley, June 25 ; at Old Fort Tejon the last of June; and at Bakersfield, 

 in the San Joaquin Valley, July 17-20. Mr. Bailey found it in flocks 

 consisting of several hundred individuals at Monterey, September 28 

 to October 9, and Mr. Kelson reported it as common in the San Joaquin 

 Valley, October 5-27, and along the route from San Simeon to Oarpen- 

 teria and Santa Paula in November and December. 



Record of specimens collected of Sturnella magna ncglccta,. 



Col- 

 lector's 

 No. 



Sex. 



Locality. 



Date. 



Collector. 



lien arks. 



98 



? 





Feb. 6, 1891 

 Jan. 23,1891 

 Jan. 28,1891 

 June 19, 1891 

 June 9,1891 



A.K. Fisher 



....do 



do 





69 



84 



Death Valley, Calif 



do 



do 



Furnace Creek. 

 Do. 





V. Bailey 



F. Stephens 



Do. 



79 













Icterus parisorum. Scott's Oriole. 



Scott's oriole is one of a number of birds whose known range lias 

 been greatly extended by the observations of the different members of 

 the expedition. It was first observed at the summit of Shepherd Canon 

 in the Argus Eange, Calif., May 1. All along the western slope of this 

 range and in Coso Valley it was common, and males were in full song. 

 On May 5 a female was secured, which contained an egg in the oviduct, 

 and on May 7 a nest containing two eggs was found. It was placed 

 on the lower side of a branch of a tree yucca about 8 feet from the 

 ground, and was firmly attached to the bayonet- shaped leaves of the 

 tree by threads of plant fiber and tough grasses. A number of old 

 nests were seen in many places through the valley. In the Coso 

 Mountains it was also common up to the summit among the yuccas, 

 junipers, and pinons, where, on May 27, a nest containing an egg and 

 three young was found in a yucca in Mill Canon. 



Mr. Nelson found it breeding in the Inyo, Panamint, and Grapevine 

 mountains in the pifion belt. On the eastern slope of the Inyo Moun- 

 tains, near Cerro Gordo, one was noted on June 15. On both slopes of 

 the Panamint Mountains, near Cottonwood Canon, he found it ranging 

 from the yucca belt up to the summit of the divide, and in the Grape- 

 vine Mountains found it among the pinons. Everywhere he found it 

 in pairs, the males singing from the tops of pinons. Above the l charcoal 

 kilns' in Wild Eose Canon in the Panamint Mountains, Mr. Bailey 

 and the Avriter saw the species and heard the males singing, June 

 24-25. Mr. Stephens heard it near the Queen mine in the White Moun- 

 tains, Nevada, July 11-16. In the same. State Dr. Merriam secured 

 specimens in the Charleston Mountains April 30, and in the Juniper 



