. Results of a biological survey of Mount Shasta, California. Natural history; Natural history. 122 NOETH AMERICAN FAUNA. [NO. 16. 71. Agelaius phceniceus. Eed-winged Blackbird. Common in Shasta Valley September 17 to 20 (Osgood). 0. H. Town- send gives it as "an abundant summer resident of the cultivated coun- try north of Mount ; 72. Sturnella magna neglecta. Western Meadowlark. Common in the meadowland at Sisson and Edgewood, and in the narrow meadows bordering Shasta Eiver, in Shasta Valley. At Wagon Camp I saw one in a grassy opening August 13, and a few days earlier Walt
. Results of a biological survey of Mount Shasta, California. Natural history; Natural history. 122 NOETH AMERICAN FAUNA. [NO. 16. 71. Agelaius phceniceus. Eed-winged Blackbird. Common in Shasta Valley September 17 to 20 (Osgood). 0. H. Town- send gives it as "an abundant summer resident of the cultivated coun- try north of Mount ; 72. Sturnella magna neglecta. Western Meadowlark. Common in the meadowland at Sisson and Edgewood, and in the narrow meadows bordering Shasta Eiver, in Shasta Valley. At Wagon Camp I saw one in a grassy opening August 13, and a few days earlier Walter K. Fisher saw one in a similar place a little higher on the mountain. In the Sisson Meadows ('Strawberry Valley'), during the first half of September, 11. T. Fisher found meadowlarks "gathered in flocks of as many as a hundred ; 73. Icterus hullocki. Bullock Oriole. Common along streams in Shasta and Little Shasta valleys (W. K. Fisher). Vernon Bailey tells me that at Ager, in the north end of Shasta Valley, some silver poplars in a door yard are literally full of nests of this oriole, and that when he examined them June 20,1899, the new nests contained young orioles and the old nests young house finches {Garpodacus m. ohscuriis). 74. Scolecophagus cyanocephalus. Brewer Blackbird. Fairly common at Sisson and in Shasta Valley, but not observed on the mountain except in one instance, when several were seen at extreme timberline on the east side of Mud Creek Canyon August 24 by Vernon Bailey and Florence A. Merriam. 75. Coccothraustes vespertinus montanus. Western Evening Grosbeak. One of the commonest and most characteristic birds of the Shasta fir belt (Canadian zone), and much less common in the alpine hemlocks (Hud- sonian zone). At Wagon Camp, near the lower border of the Canadian zone, small flocks were seen or heard daily whenever the camp was occupied, from the time of our arrival, the middle of July, until our departure, Septem- ber 25. At Squaw Creek C
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