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ZOOLOGY BIEDS. 



A single specimen was taken in Provo Canon in August, and others 

 in the Wahsatch range of mountains during the migrations in September 

 and October. They were found to be numerous about Denver in May, and 

 common through Arizona and New Mexico. Their habits and notes appeal- 

 identical with those of the eastern socialis. Two broods are raised in a sea- 

 son. A nest, found July 24, containing young just hatched, was placed in a 

 small pifion tree a few feet from the ground. The bird winters in the 

 southern portion of Arizona. 



SPIZELLA PALLIDA (Swains.). 



Clay-colored Sparrow. 



Embcriza pattida, SWAINS., Fn. Bor.-Am., ii, 1831, 251 (not of AUDUBON). 



Mpizclla pallida, BD., Birds N. A., 1858, 474. Id., U. S. & Mex. Bound. Surv., ii, pt. ii, 



185!), Birds, 10. UEEKM., P. E. E. Eep., x, pt. iv, 1859, 48 (California ; 



Texas). UAYD., Trans. Am. Phil. Soc,., xii, 1862, 107. OOUES, Key N. A. 



Birds, 1872, 143. BD., BEEW., & UIDG., N. A. Birds, ii, 1874, 11, pi. xxvi, 



f. o. ALLJON, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat, Hist., June, 1874. 27. COUBS, Birds 



Northwest, LS74, 1 IS. 



