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the United States avifauna, but also a new genus and fam- 

 ily within the United States. 



A Specimen of Passerella iliaca taken in Califoenia. 



By W. E. Bryant. 



Mr. A. M. Ingersoll, of San Diego, has sent to me for 

 examination a male fox sparrow (P. iliaca), which he col- 

 lected at Poway, San Diego County, January 3, 1888. The 

 bird is in good plumage and not different from Eastern ex- 

 amples. In the appendix to Hist, of N. A. Birds, Vol. Ill, 

 p. 516, mention is made of "The capture of a specimen ex- 

 actly intermediate between P. iliaca and P. toionsendii, at 

 Saticoy, California, December 14, 1872, by Dr. Cooper." 



