Perching- Birds Chiefly Brown or Streaked 



585. Fox Sparrow (Passerella tliaca). L. 7.2. 

 Back streaked, gray and reddish brown; tail and spots 

 below bright reddish brown. Notes. Call, a weak 

 tseep; song, loud, sweet, varied, ringing and joyous. 



Range.— Eastern North America; breeds from Magdalen Islands and 

 Manitoba, northwest to Alaska; winters from Virginia to the Gulf 

 States. 



585a. Shumagin Fox Sparrow (P. i. unalaschen- 

 sis). Back not distinctly streaked, much paler than 

 No. 585; spots below grayish brown; palest of present 

 group. 



Range.— Alaska, Shumagin Islands, and Alaskan Peninsula to Cook 

 Inlet. 



— Kadiak Fox Sparrow (P. i. insularis). Similar 

 to No. 585a, but browner above and below; tail nearly 

 same as back; breast spots larger. 



Range. — 'Kadiak Island, Alaska, In summer; in winter south along 

 the coast slope to southern California." (Ridgw.) 



— Sooty Fox Sparrow (P. i. fuliginosa). Ads. 

 Above, including wings and tail, uniform brownish 

 umber, unstreaked; below heavily spotted with same. 



Range— Coast of British Columbia and northwest Washington; 

 south in winter to San Francisco, California. (Ridgw.) 



— Townsend Fox Sparrow (P. i. townsendi). Sim- 

 ilar to fuliginosa but more rufous. 



Range. Southern Alaska north to Cross Sound; south In winter to 

 northern California. (Ridgw.) 



— Yakutat Fox Sparrow (P. i. anhectens). Similar 

 to townsendi but less .rufous; very near fuliginosa, but 

 not quite so deeply colored. 



Range. — Coast of Alaska, from Cross Sound to Prince William 

 Sound (to Cook Inlet?); in winter, south to California. (Ridgw.) 



585b. Thick-billed Sparrow (P. i. megarhyncha). 

 L. 7.3; W. 3.3; depth of B. at base, .4. Ads. Above 

 and spots below gray', wings and tail light brown; 

 bill large. Notes. Song, resembles that of No. 585, 

 but is recognizably different. 



Range.— Breeding In the Sierra Nevada (both slopes) from Mt. 

 Shasta southward: in winter beyond Sierras as far as Los Angeles 

 County, California. (Ridgw.) 



585c. Slate-colored Sparrow (P. i. schistacea). 



Similar to No. 585b, but smaller, bill smaller; W. 3.2; 

 depth of B. at base, .35. 



Range.— Rocky Mountain district of United States and British Co- 

 lumbia; breeds from more eastern ranges of Colorado west to White 

 Mountains in southeastern Colorado, mountains of northeastern Cal- 

 ifornia and eastern Oregon; north to interior of British Columbia; In 

 migrations, New Mexico, Arizona, western slopes of Sierra Nevada, 

 western Kansas. (Ridgw.) 



585d. Stephens Sparrow (P. i. stephmsi). Similar 

 in coloration to No. 585b, but larger, the bill conspicu- 

 ously so; W. 3.4; depth of B. at base .6. (Ridgw.) 



Range. — Breeding on San Bernardino and San Jacinto Mountains; 

 southern California. (Ridgw.) 



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