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THE CONDOR 
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in “North American Fauna No. 7.” As is evident, probably no other one interior 
locality has already received so much attention from Naturalists, and yet much 
new and valuable data doubtless await the future explorer of this locality still far 
from the influences of cultivation and the railroad. 
The following is a list of the birds detected during my brief visit, July 19 to 
26, 1904, within two miles up and down the valley from Fort Tejon: 
Lophortyx californicus vallicolus 
Zeiiaidura macroura 
Gymnogyps californianus 
Cathartes aura 
Ac dpi ter cooperi 
Buteo borealis calurus 
I'alco sparverius phalcena 
Strix pratincola 
Megascops asio bendirei 
Bubo virginianus pacificus 
Dryobates villosus hyloscopus 
Dryobates pubescens turati 
Dryobates nuttalli 
Melanerpes formicivorus bairdi 
Colaptes cafer col tar is 
Phalcenoptilus nuttalli californicus 
Calypte anna 
Tyrannus verticalis 
Myiarchus cinerascens 
Sayornis nigricans 
Contopus richardsoni 
Empidonax trailli 
Aphelocoma californica 
Corvus corax sinuatus 
Icterus bullocki 
Euphagus cyanocephalus 
Carpodacus mexicanus frontalis 
Astragalinus psaltria hesperophilus 
Astragalinus lawrencei 
Chondestes grammacus strigatus 
Aimophila ruficeps 
Melospiza cinerea heermanni 
Pipilo maculatus" me galonyx 
Pipilo fuscus crissalis 
Zamelodia melanocephala capiialis 
Guiraca ccerulea lazula 
Cyanospiza amcena 
Progne subis hesperia 
Tachycineta thalassina lepida 
Vireo gilvus swainsoni 
Vireo solitarius cassitii 
Vireo pusillus albatus 
Dendroica' cestiva brewsteri 
Toxostoma redivivum pasadenense 
Salpinctes obsoletus 
Calherpcs mexicanus punctulatus 
Troglodytes aedon parkmani 
Certhia americana zclotes 
Sitia carolinensis aculeata 
Bceolophus inornatus 
Chamcca fasciata 
Psaltriparu s\minimus 
Polioptila ccerulea obscura 
Sia/ia mexicana occidentalis 
Some Bird Notes from the Central Sierras 
BY CHARLES R. KEYES 
D URING the late spring and early summer of 1903 a small party, including 
the writer, tramped with pack animals from Sonora to Fake Tahoe, thus 
passing through the central heavily timbered portion of the Sierra Ne- 
vada mountains. We left Sonora on May 27, crossed the north fork of the Stanis- 
laus river at Robinson’s Ferry and thence made a leisurely trip by the old Big 
Trees — Carson Valley stage road along the north bank of this river, the route tak- 
ing us through the Calaveras grove of sequoias, through Bear Valley and through 
the beautiful chain ot mountain meadows called Charity, Faith, and Hope Valleys. 
From the latter we left the old time stage road, now frequented by few except 
passing sheep and cattle men, and, turning northward through Futher’s Pass, 
soon descended into Fake Valley and finally concluded our itinerary, so far as 
