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Title: Handbook of birds of the western United States, including the great plains, great basin, Pacific slope, and lower Rio Grande Valley
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Bailey, Florence Merriam, b. 1863
Subjects: Birds -- West (U.S.)
Publisher: Boston New York, Houghton, Mifflin and company
Contributing Library: MBLWHOI Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MBLWHOI Library

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crossbill.2 On Mt. Shasta its only treesare the black alpine hemlock and white-barked pine, its character-istic mammal is the cony (Ochotona), and its characteristic bird theClarke crow. It is also frequented by the sooty grouse, westerngoshawk, Williamson sapsucker, rufous hummingbird, Oregon jay.pine siskin, junco, Audubon and hermit warblers, creeper, red-breasted nuthatch, kinglets, and solitaire.3 1 Merriams Laws of Temperature Control of the Geographic Distribution of Ter-restrial Animals and Plants, Xadonal Geoara/>hic Mnyazinc, vi. 229-23S. 2 Merriam, C. Hart, Life Zones and Crop Zones of the United States, Bull. No. 10,Kiologicnl Sun-iii; Geographic Distribution of Animals and Plants in North America,Yearbook of the U. 8. Department of Agriculture, 1SD4. 3 Merriam, C. Hart, North American Fauna, No. Ill, Result of a Biological Survey ss .-VHH,^. 77<e dotted parts of the Sonoran Zones castof the Gnat Plains indicate the western limitof the humid dhiatons or these Zones.
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LIFE ZONES BY C. HART MERRIAM INTRODUCTION xxxv The Canadian Zone comprises the southern or lower part of thegreat transcontinental coniferous forest. It is the zone of firs,spruces, and white pines, which on Mt. Shasta are represented bythe Shasta fir and the silver pine. One of its characteristic animalsis the mountain beaver, and it has also the porcupine, pine squirrel,bear, wild cat, wolf, and other mammals. It is the home of thecrossbill, Lincoln sparrow, and Arctic three-toed woodpecker, andfrequented by birds found in the Hudsouian zone, such as the sootygrouse, rufous hummingbird, siskin, juncos, warblers, kinglets, andsolitaire, together with a number found also in the next lower zone(the Transition), such as the white-headed, hairy, and pileatedwoodpeckers, nighthawk, olive-sided, Hammond, Wright, and west-ern flycatchers, Steller jay, Louisiana tanager, Macgillivray war-bler, and robin. The Transition Zojie, in which northern and southern elements offlora and fauna often o

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