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Comment: This species was reported nesting in Fern Cave and Fossil Cave. 
Bibliography: Danehy (1952); Gale (1959); Hopson (1949); Johnson, V. (1990). 
Family Mimidae 
Toxostoma crissale Henry (crissal thrasher) 
Record: San Bernardino Co.: *Mitchell Caverns. 
Family Paridae 
Poecile gambeli Ridgway (mountain chickadee) 
Record: Siskiyou Co.: *Adam’s Homestead Cave. 
Family Troglodytidae (wrens) 
Undetermined 
Record: Shasta Co.: *Potter Creek Cave. 
Bibliography: Sinclair (1904). 
Catherpes mexicanus (Swainson) (canyon wren) 
Records: Mariposa Co.: *Bower Cave. Siskiyou Co.: *Lower Heppe Cave; * Crystal Ice Cave. Tuolumne Co.: *Vulture 
Cave. 
Bibliography: Briggs and Gpc (1975); Graham (1969c). 
Salpinctes obsoletus (Say) (rock wren) 
Record: Mariposa Co.: *Bower Cave. 
Bibliography: Briggs and Gpc (1975). 
Family Turdidae 
Sialia mexicana Swainson (western bluebird) 
Record: Amador Co.: *Black Chasm. 
Bibhography: Danehy (1952). 
Family Tyrannidae (flycatchers) 
Sayornis nigricans (Swainson) (black phoebe) 
Records: Calaveras Co.: *Lower Calaveras Natural Bridge. Inyo Co.: *Wallboard Cave. Mariposa Co.: *Bower Cave. 
Comment: Lower Calaveras Natural Bridge and Bower Cave were used as nesting sites. 
Bibhography: Graham (1969c). 
CLASS MAMMALIA (mammals) 
ORDER INSECTIVORA (insectivores) 
Family Soricidae (shrews) 
Sorex monticulus Merriam (shrew) 
Records: Calaveras Co.: Porcupine Cave. Fresno Co.: Church Cave. Mariposa Co.: Bower Cave. Tuolumne Co.: Crys¬ 
tal Palace. 
Comment: The first and last records are from 1979. Shrews were found inhabiting leaf litter in Bower Cave. Steve Fairchild 
reported to the California Speleological Survey that shrews used to inhabit Church Cave but they are no longer there (D. 
Quick, pers. comm.). 
Bibhography: Graham (1969c). 
Family Talpidae (moles) 
Scapanus latimanus (Bachman) (broad-footed mole) 
Records: Mariposa Co.: *Bower Cave. Tuolumne Co.: *Gate Pit Cave. 
Comment: A dead individual was found at the bottom of the entrance of Gate Pit Cave in 1979. Graham observed mole 
tunnels in the terrace at Bower Cave. 
Bibhography: Graham (1969c); Jackson, H.H. (1915). 
