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THE WESTERN LARK SPARROW. 



browns or purplish blacks, chiefly at the larger end ; notably rounded in shape. 

 Av. size .82 X .05 ( 20.8 .X 16.5). Season: May 15-June 5 ; one brood, rarely two. 

 General Range. — Western United States and plateau of Mexico ; north to 

 middle British Columbia, Manitoba, etc.; east to eastern border of Great Plains; 

 west to Pacific Coast, including peninsula of lower California; south in winter to 

 Guatemala. 



Taken in 

 Douglas County 



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Range in Washington. — Summer resident east of Cascades only, in Upper 

 Sonoran and Arid Transition zones. 



Migrations. — Wallula, May 6, 1907; Yakima Co., May i, 1906; ibid, May 

 3, 1900 ; Chelan, May 19, 1896. 



Authorities. — ["Western lark finch," Johnson, Rep. Gov. W. T., 1884 

 (1885), 22.] Belding, Land Birds Pacific District (1890), p. 148 (Walla Walla, 

 J. W. Williams, 1885). (T.) (CcSfS.) D'. D^ Ss'. Ss^ J. 



Specimens.— (U. of W.) C. P. 



AS in the case of the Sandwicli and Savanna Sparrows, the curiously 

 striped coloration of this bird's head is e\'idently intended to facilitate conceal- 

 ment. The ]>ird peering out of a weed clumj) is almost invisilile. .Vnd }-et, as 

 I was once passing along a sage-clad hillside in Chelrui cunnty with an njjserv- 



