Distribution in the sky near the Virgo region of halo tracers for which both velocities and distances are available in the literature. Circles represent RRLS (solid circles are stars in the QUEST survey, which includes the ones reported in this work; open circles come from the SEKBO and Catalina surveys), + symbols are BHB stars from Sirko et al. (2004), and Brown et al. (2008, 2010), open and solid triangles are red giants from Starkenburg et al. (2009) and M giants from Majewski et al. (2004), respectively. Notice that the figure shows a region in the sky much larger than the one explored in this work with RRLS, i.e., the dotted rectangle with 178° < RA < 200°, −4° < Dec < 0°.