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24. Washington — Prescott, April 6; Pullman, May 14. British 

 Columbia — ^Okanagan Landing, May 4. 



Early dates of fall arrival are: Texas— Fort Davis, September 2. 

 Baja California— Cape district, August 15. Chihuahua — Ramos, 

 September 8. Sinaloa — September 3. 



Late dates of fall departure are: British Columbia — Okanagan, 

 Landing, and Shushartie, September 9. Washington — Prescott 

 September 13. Oregon — Multnomah, September 9. Nevada — Mer- 

 cury, September 29. California — Benton, September 21; Dublin, 

 September 6. Idaho — Lewiston, September 25 (median of 11 years, 

 September 10). Montana — Libby, August 30. Wyoming — Laramie, 

 September 15 (average of 5 years for southeastern Wyoming, Septem- 

 ber 2) . Utah— Raft River Mountains, September 12. New Mexico — 

 Los Alamos, September 26. South Dakota — Aberdeen, September 13. 

 Oklahoma — Kenton, September 28. Texas — ^Amarillo, September 12. 

 Missouri — St. Joseph, September 13. 



Egg dates. — ^British Columbia: 2 records, July 1 and July 14. 



California: 112 records, March 25 to July 25; 56 records, May 23 

 to June 9. 



Oregon: 15 records, June 9 to July 20. 



Utah: 12 records. May 30 to July 16; 6 records, July 1 to July 7. 



Wyoming: 10 records, June 5 to June 23. 



PASSERINA VERSICOLOR VERSICOLOR (Bonaparte) 



Varied Bunting 

 Contributed by Lloyd R. Wolfe 



Habits 



The varied bunting is primarily a Mexican species, but three sub- 

 species occur within the borders of the area covered by the A.O.U. 

 Check-List. One race (P. v. pulchra) is resident in southern Baja 

 California, another race (P. v. dickeyae) is a very rare summer resident 

 in central and southern Arizona, and the nominate form is a summer 

 resident in southwestern Texas, from west of the Big Bend country 

 inland along the Rio Grande, eastward to the Gulf where it occasionally 

 winters. Still another extralimital race (P. v. purpurascens) is resident 

 in Guatemala. These races are very similar and only can be separated 

 by a comparison of museum specimens. Their habitats, behavior, 

 and life history, while still not well known, are probably so much 

 alike that most details concerning one race will undoubtedly apply 

 to the others. 



This is a bu"d of the desert and semiarid brush country of low and 

 medium elevations; it is never found in heavily wooded areas. James 



