Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Elevation above Sea Level. 5ECTION IV. MT. NAGLE SECTION V. MT. MAGRUDER PROFILES Illustrating the Distribution OF The PREDOMINATING VEGETATION Oy SOME OP THE MOUNTAINS OF NEVADA. VERTICAL SCALE. CONIFER/t. C.LEDIFOLIUS. SALICACIS.. COMPOSIT/t ARTIMISI/t. PROSOPIS. (RARE) CACTAOE/t, VUCCA ETC. r ftrr Y. BREVIFOLIA. ffesperocichla ncevia (Gmel.) Baird.?Varied Eobin. This species is distributed more particularly over the northwestern coast region of the United States, thence northward to Alaska. Lieutenant Ives' party procured one specimen in the Colorado Valley in 1858, which thus far seems to limit its southern range. Dr. Cooper found it in the lower portion of California in winter, and states that it is very probable that some breed in the evergreen forests of the north, as they do near the mouth of the Columbia, and that in October they come down to the valleys, and are quite common in winter near San Francisco. Mr. Henshaw says: " A male of this species which I saw confined in a cage in a store in Carson City was said by the owner to have been captured during the previous spring (1876) in the adjoining mountains. For this statement I cannot vouch, but give it for what it is worth." This thrush had not been recorded from any locality east of the Sierras, excepting four instances of its occurrence on the Atlantic coast, all within a limited area, though, as Mr. Heushaw says, there seems to be no reason why during the migrations, as in the case of other birds possessing a similar summer habitat, the species may not occur along the eastern slope. Since the above notes were published by Mr. Henshaw the following has been received from him regarding this species: t " In winter occurs along the eastern slope [of the Sierras] and is...