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141. Spizella atrogularis (Cabanis) 



Black-chinned Sparrow 



Spizella atrogularis (1) Linton, Condor, xi, 1909, p. 194. (2) Grinnell, Pac. Coast Avif., 

 11, 1915, p. 119. 



The single record is of a female shot by C. B. Linton (!) on San Clemente 

 Island, December 5, 1908. 



142. Junco hyemalis thurberi Anthony 



Thurber Junco 



Junco hiemalis oregonus (J) Mailliard, Bull. Cooper Orn. Club, i, 1899, p. 45. 



Junco hyemalis thurberi. (2) Linton, Condor, x, 1908, p. 85. (3) Linton, Condor, x, 1908, 



p. 128, (-'/) Willett, Pac. Coast Avif., 7, 1912, p. 82. 

 Junco oreganus oreganus (.5) Grinnell, Pac. Coast Avif., 11, 1915, p. 120. 

 Junco oreganus thurberi (6) Grinnell, Pac. Coast Avif., 11, 1915, p. 120. 



Rare winter visitant. C. B. Linton (2) collected a bird on San Clemente 

 Island, October 13, 1907, he (4) saw one on San Nicolas, March 31, 1910, and (.3) 

 took a pair on Santa Cruz November 28, 1907. In the latter locality J. Mailliard 

 {!) shot a female in April, 1898, which he ascribed to oregonus. He (MS) now, 

 however, believes that it is thurheri. 



143. Amphispiza belli (Cassin) 



Bell Sparrow 



Poospiza belli (1) Cooper, Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci., iv, 1870, p. 78. (2) Cooper, Land Birds 

 Calif., I, 1870, p. 204. 



Amphispiza belli {3) Townsend, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xiii, 1890, p. 140. (^) Belding, 

 Land Birds Pac. Dist., 1890, p. 162. (J) Keeler, Zoe, i, 1891, p. 340. (6) Grinnell, 

 Pasadena Acad. Sci., i, 1897, p. 18. (7) Breninger, Auk, xxi, 1904, p. 221. (8) Lin- 

 ton, Condor, x. 1908, p. 85. (5) A. O. U. Check-list, 3d ed., 1910, p. 269. {10) Wil- 

 lett, Pac. Coast Avif., 7, 1912, p. 82. (11) Grinnell, Pac. Coast Avif., 11, 1915, p. 121. 



Amphispiza belli clementae (12) Ridgway, Auk, xv, 1898, p. 230. (13) A. 0. U. Commit- 

 tee, Auk, xviii, 1901, p. 313. (i//) Mearns, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., lvi, 1907, p. 141. 



Amphispiza belli belli (15) Ridgway, Birds North & Mid. Am., i, 1901, p. 268. 



Bell Sparrow (16) Willett, Condor, xii, 1910, p. 171. 



Common resident of San Clemente, San Nicolas and Santa Rosa islands. R. 

 Ridgway (12) described a subspecies, A. h. clementae, from San Clemente, simi- 

 lar to belli in coloration, but larger and with a relatively larger bill. The differ- 

 ence, however, has not been considered to be sufficiently pronounced to justify 

 the recognition of the subspecies. On San Clemente the species is common on 

 the mesa lands back from the shore, and L. j\I. Huey and I found several nests 

 with pipped eggs and young the latter part of March, 1915. They were situated 

 in scrubby brush a few inches above the ground. 



J. G. Cooper (1, 2) reported a specimen of the Bell Sparrow from Santa 

 Barbara Island. There is a specimen of Melospiza m. graminea in juvenal plum- 

 age, in the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology at Berkeley, from Santa Barbara Isl- 

 and, marked in Dr. Cooper's handwriting "May 30, 1863, Poospiza belli or Feu- 



