1.30 NORTH AMERICAN FAUNA. 



Record of specimens collected of Harporliynelvus lecontei. 



[No. 7. 



Col- 

 lector's 

 No. 



121 

 133 



29 



164 

 53 



284 



126 



U 



17 



16 



90 



100 



101 



107 



Sex. 



d 

 d 

 d 



d 



d 



d 



d 



? 



d juv. 



2 ini. 



d 



d 

 d 

 ? 

 d 



d im. 

 ? . 

 d im. 



9 



d 



d 



d 



d juv. 



d juv. 



$ im. 



rf 



? 



? 



s 



? 



cf 

 9 



Locality. 



Resting Springs, Calif 



do 



Twelve-mile Spring, Calif . . 



Asli Meadows, Nev 



do 



do 



Palirump Valley, Nov ... 



do 



do 



Vegas Valley, Nev 



Beaverdam " Mountains, 

 Utah. 



Table Mountain , Nev 



Bnena Vista Lake, Calif 



Hesperia, Calif 



Salt Wells Valley, Calif 

 Owens Valley, Calif 



'.'.'.'.'.'.do '.'.~'.V."fSSf//.'.~.Y.Y.~. 



Coso Mountains 



....do 



Panamint Valley, Calif 



Daggett, Calif 



Mohave Desert, Calif 



do 



Death Valley, Calif 



Garlick Springs, Calif 



do 



Resting Springs, Calif 



do 



do 



do 



Date. 



Feb. 14,1891 



do 



Feb. 20,1891 



Mar. 19, 1891 

 Mar. 10, 1891 

 Mar. 19, 1891 

 Feb. 11,1891 



....do 



Apr. 29, 1891 

 May 1,1891 

 May 10, 1891 



May 6, 1891 

 Oct'; 26,1891 

 Sept. 15, 1891 

 May 4, 1891 

 June 2,1891 

 Dec. 27,18fi0 

 July 3,1891 



Dec. 31,1890 



....do 



Jan. 10,1891 

 Jan. 7,1891 

 June 27, 1891 



....do 



June 21, 1891 

 Jan. 30,1891 

 Feb. 10,1891 



....do 



Feb. 7, 1891 



....do 



....do 



Feb. 11,1891 



Collector. 



F. Stephens 



do 



....do 



E. W. Nelson 



A. K. Fisher 



....do 



E. TV. Nelson 



....do 



C. Hart Merriam. 



....do 



....do 



F. Stephens . 



E. TV. Nelson. 



F. Stephens .. 

 do 



A. K. Fisher . 



E. TV. Nelson. 



F. Stephens.. 



E. TV. Nelson. 



V. Bailey 



do 



A.. L. Fisher . 

 T. S. Palmer . 



...do 



V.Bailey 



E. W.Nelson. 



F. Stephens - . 

 do 



A. K. Fisher . 

 ....do 



.do . 



Remarks. 



North of Resting 

 Springs. 



Amargosa Desert. 

 San Joaquin Valley. 



Keeler. 

 Lone Pine. 

 22 miles north 

 Bishop. 



of 



Willow Spring. 



Do. 

 Bennett Wells. 

 Saratoga Springs, 



Harporhynchus crissalis. Crissal Thraslier. 



The crissal thrasher was not found in the Mohave or Amargosa 

 deserts, nor in Death, Panamint, or other valleys west of the Charles- 

 ton Mountains, where LeConte's thrasher is so common. Dr. Merriam 

 found it from Yegas Valley, Nevada, eastward. He observed it in the 

 valley of the Virgin, near St. Joe, Hev., May 7, and near Bunker - 

 ville, May 85 and found it a common breeder in the Lower Santa Clara 

 Valley, Utah, where a nest containing two fresh eggs was discovered 

 in a bush of Atriplew torreyi, about 3 feet above the ground, May 

 16. Mr. Nelson also found a nest containing three eggs, at Cottonwood 

 Spring, at the east base of the Charleston Mountains, March 8. The 

 bird was shot from the nest, which was placed partly on one of the 

 large branches of a desert willow (Chilopsis saligna) and partly on top 

 of an Atriplex canescens bush growing" under it. The structure was 

 formed externally of coarse twigs, a few inches long, and lined with 

 hemp-like strips of bark from a plant growing in the vicinity. 



Heleodytes brunneicapillus. Cactus Wren. 



The cactus wren is an abundant and characteristic bird of the 

 Lower Sonoran Zone, breeding wherever there are suitable forests of 

 tree yuccas or arborescent cactuses, and sometimes in other forms of 

 spiny vegetation, as the desert acacia (Acacia greggii). It was first 



