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central Ohio, November 28 (median of 40 years, November 14). In- 

 diana- — Lafayette, November 27; Wayne County, November 21 

 (median of 9 years, November 15). Illinois — Chicago, November 20 

 (average of 16 years, November 5). Kentucky- — Bowling Green, 

 November 10. Tennessee — Nashville, November 26 (median of 

 11 years, October 27). Mississippi — Rosedale, November 17. Prince 

 Edward Island — Murray Harbour, October 5. New Brunswick — 

 Fredericton, November 25. Maine- — York County, December 8; 

 Brewer, December 5. Quebec — Quebec, November 4; Montreal, 

 November 30 (average of 37 years, October 29). New Hampshire — 

 New Hampton, December 12 (median of 21 years, November 14) ; 

 Concord, December 2. Massachusetts — Springfield, December 13. 

 Connecticut — Danbury, December 5; New Haven, November 30. 

 New York — Madison County, December 3; Cayuga and Oneida 

 Lake Basins, November 30 (average of 18 years, November 3). 

 New Jersey — Cape May, December 2. Pennsylvania — Pittsburgh 

 and State College, November 23 (average, November 20) . Maryland — 

 Baltimore County, December 16; Allegany County, December 8. 

 District of Columbia — average of 15 years, November 21. 



Egg dates- — Newfoundland: 117 records, May 8 to July 12; 94 

 records May 18 to June 12. 



Ontario: 1 record, July 17. 



Quebec: 9 records, June 2 to June 4. 



PASSERELLA ILIACA ZABOR1A Oberholser 



Yukon Fox Sparrow 

 Contributed by Oliver L. Austin, Jr. 



Habits 



This subspecies differs from the nominate eastern race, from which 

 it was split less than 20 years ago, mainly in being somewhat grayer, 

 particularly on the head, and in having the streakings of the under- 

 pays less rufous and more sooty. Gabrielson and Lincoln (1959) 

 state "This race never appears to be abundant, although it is a 

 widely distributed summer resident * * * from Kotzebue Sound 

 and the Colville River south to the Alaska Range. In this great 

 region it is found as a brush bird which is adept at getting away from 

 an observer." 



Lee R. Dice (1920) gives its habitat in Alaska as "chiefly in the 

 white spruces, paper birches, and willows along the streams, though 

 one was noted in song in black spruces several hundred yards from 

 other types of forest." Edward W. Nelson (1887) found the species 

 near St. Michael's "sharing with the Tree-sparrows the bushy shelter 



