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Animal Life in the Yosemite
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CONTENTS List of plates, colored Distribution of animal life in the Yosemite section Censuses of birds in the Yosemite section The interrelations of living things Index (omitted from the online edition) PLATES, COLORED 2. Sierra Golden-mantled and Belding ground squirrels; Marmot 3. Chipmunks of the Yosemite section 4. Band-tailed Pigeon 5. Woodpeckers of the Yosemite section 6. Family group of Williamson Sapsuckers 7. Cassin and California purple finches and California Linnet 8. Some sparrows of the Yosemite section 9. Warblers of the Yosemite section 10. Some small birds of the Yosemite forests 11. Townsend Solitaire and Russet-backed and Sierra Hermit thrushes 12. Coral King Snake; Western Skink, young and adult PLATES, HALF-TONE 14. Digger pine association near Pleasant Valley; edge of yellow pine association three miles east of Coulterville 15. Golden oak association near Rocky Point; south bank of Merced River near El Portal 16. Yosemite Valley from Big Oak Flat road, with golden-oak talus in foreground; meadow and cottonwood associations in Yosemite Valley 17. Jeffrey pine and huckleberry oak associations east of Half Dome; white fir association near Chinquapin 18. Vogelsang Lake and Pass; Tuolumne Meadows 19. Mounts Gibbs and Dana from the east; Williams Butte near Mono Lake 20. Navigator, Yosemite and Dusky shrews 21. Bats of the Yosemite Valley and higher Sierra Nevada 22. Tracks of Black Bear in Yosemite Valley 23. Pacific Fisher, Sierra Pine Marten and Sierra Nevada Wolverine 24. California Badger and its work 25. Boyle and Common white-footed mice and House Mouse 26. Some "leaping" rodents of the Yosemite section 27. Yosemite Pocket Gopher and Yosemite Mole 28. Surface workings of mole and pocket gopher 29. Yosemite Pocket Gopher in action 30. Winter earth cores made by pocket gophers 31. Sierra Mountain Beaver and its burrow 32. Southern Sierra Marmot 33. Long-eared Chipmunk and California Gray Squirrel 34. California Gray Squirrel 35. Cones of white fir exhumed from caches made by Sierra Chickaree; twig tips of lodgepole pine cut by Sierra Chickaree 36. Granite talus at head of Lyell Canon, home of Yosemite Cony; kitchen iniddens on log where Sierra Chickaree had been dissecting red fir cones 37. Work of Yellow-haired Porcupine; work of Golden Beaver 38. Yosemite Cony and its lookout station 39. Mountain Coyote; Mule Deer 40. Records in the road 41. California Gulls on Paoha Island, Mono Lake 42. Long-eared Owls 43. Band-tailed Pigeons; Nuttall Poorwill; Great Gray Owl 44. Principal diurnal birds of prey in the Yosemite region 45. Nests and eggs of Swainson Hawk and Texas Nighthawk 46. Hummingbirds, Swallows, and White-throated Swift 47. Nests of Cliff Swallow and California Linnet 48. Mariposa Fox Sparrow, Green-tailed Towhee, and Sacramento Spurred Towhee 49. Nests of Green-tailed Towhee and Northeastern Lincoln Sparrow 50. Vireos of the Yosemite region 51. Nests of California Least Vireo and Tolmie Warbler 52. American Dipper 53. Western Mockingbird and California Shrike; Dotted Canon Wren and San Joaquin Bewick Wren 54. Western House Wren and nest sites 55. Nests of Western Robin and Townsend Solitaire 56. Black-billed Magpie and Mountain Bluebird 57. Mountain Lizard, Western Fence Lizard and California Whip-tailed Lizard 58. Western Skink and alligator lizards 59. Valley Gopher Snake and Pacific Rattlesnake 60. Some amphibians of the Yosemite region MAPS, COLORED 62. Map showing life-zones of Yosemite section FIGURES IN TEXT 2. Zonal restriction of certain breeding birds 3. Sample census sheet 4. Snout of Yosemite Mole 5. Fore foot of Yosemite Mole and of Sierra Nevada Pocket Gopher 6. Zonal distribution of shrews 7. Pacific Pallid Bat 8. Mexican Free-tailed Bat 9. Sierra Least Weasel, Mountain Weasel and Pacific Mink 10. Heads of white-footed mice 11. Zonal distribution of white-footed mice 12. Tails of Alexandrine Roof Rat, and of Streator and Gray Bushy-tailed wood rats 13. Streator Wood Rat 14. Nesting quarters of Streator Wood Rat in log 15. Gray Bushy-tailed Wood Rat 16. Tails of Yosemite Meadow Mouse and Sierra Cantankerous Meadow Mouse 17. Burrow-system of Mariposa Meadow Mouse 18. Enlarged section through part of preceding 19. Zonal distribution of meadow mice 20. Sierra Cantankerous and Yosemite meadow mice and Mountain Lemming Mouse 21. Willow association at head of Lyell Canon 22. Method of work of mole 23. Method of work of pocket gopher 24. Zonal distribution of pocket gophers 25. Cartoon suggesting relation of pocket gopher work in high mountains to accumulation of fertile sediments in lowlands 26. Quill of Yellow-haired Porcupine 27. Zonal distribution of squirrels and marmot 28. Zonal distribution of chipmunks 29. Sierra Chickaree 30. Sugar pine cones as worked upon by Sierra Chickaree 31. Kitchen middens: remains of cones of Jeffrey pine 32. Sierra Flying Squirrel 33. Head of California Jack Rabbit 34. Head of Sierra White-tailed Jack Rabbit 35. Heads of Mariposa Brush Rabbit and Sacramento Cottontail Rabbit 36. Skulls and horns of Sierra Nevada Mountain Sheep and Domestic Sheep 37. Harlequin Ducks 38. Debris from beneath Cooper Hawk's nest 39. Owls of the Yosemite region 40. Debris from beneath Long-eared Owl's nest 41. Work of Willow Woodpecker on apple tree 42. Feet of Northern White-headed Woodpecker and Arctic Three-toed Woodpecker 43. Diagram of workings of Sierra Red-breasted Sapsucker 44. Fresh work of Williamson Sapsucker 45. Scars on trunk of lodgepole pine, result of work of Williamson Sapsucker 46. Head of Northern Pileated Woodpecker 47. Head and tongue of California Woodpecker 48. Drillings of California Woodpecker and nest site of Lewis Woodpecker 49. Head of Clark Nutcracker 50. Tails of California Purple Finch and California Linnet 51. Bill of Sierra Crossbill and cone and seeds of lodgepole pine 52. Bills of Cassin Purple Finch, California Evening Grosbeak, and Sierra Nevada Rosy Finch 53. Tails of Willow, Green-backed, and Lawrence goldfinches, and Pine Siskin 54. Tails of Western Lark Sparrow and Western Vesper Sparrow 55. Young of Mariposa Fox Sparrow and Pacific Black-headed Grosbeak 56. Forage niches of warblers in Yosemite Valley 57. Tails of Alaska Myrtle Warbler and Audubon Warbler 58. Tails of Sierra Creeper and Red-breasted Nuthatch 59. Heads of Sierra Hermit Thrush and Cassin Purple Finch 60. Young Western Robin 61. Zonal distribution of certain reptiles and amphibians 62. Western Yellow-bellied Racer and Ginnt Garter Snake 63. Boyle King Snake and California Striped Racer 64. Rattle of Pacific Rattlesnake 65. Poison apparatus of Pacific Rattlesnake |
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