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found " ^ It is a common winter resident in the central and northern portions 

 of California, and it has been found breeding on the higher mountains as lar 

 south as Los Angeles county. Its southward range in winter extends into 

 northern Mexico. 



Pooecetes gramineus affinis Miller. 

 Oregon Vesper Sparrow. 



Pooecetes gramineus confinis (not of Baird) Eelding, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., VL 



1883, 350 (La Paz and s.). 

 Poocaetes gramineus confinis (not of Baird) Bryant, Proc. Calif Acad. Sci., 2d. ser., 



II. 1889, 298 (near La Paz). 



Mr. Frazar did not meet with any form of the Vesper Sparrow in Lower 

 California, but Mr. Belding gives confinis as " rare " in his list of birds found 

 in the "vicinity of La Paz and southward" in the winter of 1882-83. To 

 this Mr. Bryant adds, " Several were shot near La Paz by Mr. Belding in the 

 winter. I found them near Pozo Grande and obtained one specimen at Llanos 

 de Sau Julian. Mr. Anthony has noted it as not uncommon on the north- 

 west coast." Mr. Belding asserts that P. g. confinis is a rather common winter 

 visitor to California, and that the closely allied P. g. affinis has also been fre- 

 quently taken there at the same season.'^ 



Mr. Grinnell mentions both forms as " common winter " visitants in his 

 List of the Birds of Los Angeles county.^ Mr. Ridgway, however, appar- 

 ently regards practically all the birds which inhabit or visit the Pacific coast 

 district from Oregon to Cape St. Lucas as affinis, for the only record of confinis 

 for this region which he accepts as valid in his latest work * is that by Mr. 

 Grinnell as above cited. 



Aramodramus sandwichensis alaudiuus (Bonap.). 



Western Savanna Sparrow. 



Passerculus sandwichensis alaudinus Ridgwat, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., V. 1883, 533, 

 footnote (Cape St. Lucas). Belding, Ibid., VI. 1883, 350 (San Jose' del 

 Cabo). Ridgwat, Ibid. (crit.). 



Ammodramus sandivichensis alaudinus Bryant, Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci., 2d ser., II. 

 1889,298,299 (Cape St. Lucas; Cape Region). 



A. s. alaudinus, like some of the other forms of the group to which it be- 

 longs, might be not inaptly termed a composite subspecies. Li other words, 

 it includes several well-marked but unnamed races which differ quite as much 

 from one another and from the tj'pical bird as does the latter from its nearest 



1 Zoe, IV. 1893, 240. 



'^ Occ. Papers Calif Acad. Sci., II., Land Birds Pacif. District, 1890, 140-142. 



3 Pub. II., Pasadena Acad. Sci., 1898, 36. 



4 Birds N. and Midd. Amer., pt. I. 1901, 184-187. 



