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any direction. He found the species at Mountain Spring in the 

 Charleston Mountains, April 30; in Desert Valley, May 20; in the 

 Juniper Mountains, May 18-19; and on Gold Mountain, among the 

 yuccas on the south slope, June 3. On Mount Magruder several were 

 seen in Tule Canon, and thence up to an altitude of 2,450 meters (8,000 

 feet) in the nut pines, where it evidently was breeding, June 4-8. In 

 Utah it was seen in the Santa Clara Valley near St. George, May 11-15; 

 at Mountain Meadows, May 17; and among the tree yuccas on the 

 south slope of the Beaverdam Mountains, May 10. Several were seen 

 in the nut pines on the White and Inyo mountains, California, 



In Owens Valley the species was quite common and numbers of 

 ybung birds were seen about the orchards and roadsides in June. Mr. 

 Kelson found it breeding in thePanamint, Grapevine, Inyo, and White 

 mountains and the adjacent valleys, and Dr. Merriam saw several in 

 the clumps of mesquite, in Death Valley and Mesquite Valley, April 8-18 



It was common in Kern Eiver Valley, Walker Pass, and Walker 

 Basin, and in the San Joaquin Valley between Bakersfield and Visalia. 

 It is a question whether the individuals seen by the writer at San Bern- 

 ardino, December 27-30, 1890; by Dr. Merriam in the southern part of 

 San Diego County, July 1-10, and by Mr. Nelson along the route from 

 San Simeon to Carpenteria and Santa Paula should not be referred to 

 the California shrike [Lanius ludovicianus gambeli). 



Record of specimens collected of Lanius ludovicianus excuMtorides. 



Col- 





lector's 



Sex. 



No. 





37 



d 



01 



d 



97 



9 



116 



d 



26 



9 



262 



cfjuv. 



263 



9juv. 



264 



9.1UV. 



296 



cfjuv. 



56 



9 



57 



d juv. 



106 



9 



Locality. 



Hesperia, Calif 



Granite Wells, Calif 



Death Valley, Calif 



Ash Meadows, JSTev 



Twelve-mile Spring, Calif. 



Coso Mountains, Calif . 



do 



do 



Owens Vallev, Calif 



do ". 



do 



do 



Date. 



Jan. 4, 1891 

 Jan. 15, 1891 

 Feb. 3,1891 

 Mar. 4,1891 

 Feb. 21,1891 



May 27, 1891 



do 



....do 



June 5,1891 

 May 13, 1891 

 do 



June 19, 1891 



Collector. 



A.K. Fisher . 



...do 



...do 



...do 



F.Stephens.. 



A. K. Fisher . 



...do 



...do 



...do 



F.Stephens-. 



...do 



...do 



Remarks. 



Mohave Desert. 



Do. 

 Furnace Creek. 



North of Eesting 

 Springs. 



Lone Pine. 

 Haway Meadows. 



Do. 

 Independence Creek 



Vireo gilvus swainsoni. Western Warbling Vireo. 



The warbling vireo was seen with very little regularity and was com- 

 mon in few localities visited by the expedition. In Owens Valley Mr. 

 Stephens saw one among the willows at Haway Meadows, May 13; 

 found it common and migrating at Olancha, May 16-23; common in the 

 lower part of the canon of Independence Creek, June 18-23; and heard 

 several among the willows at the Queen mine in the White Moun- 

 tains, Nevada, July 11-16. At Coso one was seen among the willows 

 and rose bushes bordering a spring, May 23, and two were secured 

 at the same place the following day. Dr. Merriam shot a specimen in 

 worn breeding-plumage at Ash Meadows, Nevada, May 30, and saw a 



