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Gabriel, Los Angeles County, February 28. 1897, and I found several sets of 

 fresh eggs near Bixby, June ( », 1912. 



282. (583) Melospiza lincolni lincolni (Audubon). Lincoln Sparrow 

 Breeds in the Boreal zone in the mountains, mostly from 7000 to 9000 feet 



altitude, south to the San Jacinto Range. Common winter visitant to the low- 

 lands where it is generally found in the brush in the vicinity of water courses. At 

 this season it occurs south to Lower California and Mexico. Breeds mostly in 

 May. Noted by H. S. Swarth near Los Angeles as early as September 18 ( 1897), 

 and by J. Grinnell at Pasadena as late as May 3 (1896) (Pub. 2, Pasadena Acad. 

 Sci., 1898, 39). Northward migration at San Diego noted by J. G. Cooper about 

 March 25 (Land Bds. Cal., 1870, 216), and L. Belding took a male in the same 

 locality, April 26, 1884 (Land Bds. Pac. Dist., 1890, 167). J. Grinnell took one 

 bird and saw another, on San Clemente Island, March 30, 1897 (Pub. 1, Pasadena 

 Acad. Sci., 1897, 19). 



About the middle of June, 1907, I found several nests of this bird near 

 Bluff Lake, 7500 feet altitude in the San Bernardino Mountains. At this date the 

 nests contained nearly grown young, so that the eggs must have been laid early 

 in May. J. Grinnell informs me that the Lincoln Sparrow breeds in appropriate 

 localities on San Jacinto Peak. 



283. (583a) Melospiza lincolni striata Brewster. Forbush Sparrow. 

 Occasional in winter. C. B. Linton took three specimens near Long Beach, 



Los Angeles County, February 12, 1908 (Condor x, 1908. 182). Two of these 

 specimens, both females, are nos. 16657 and 16658 collection J. E. Thayer. 



284. (585) Passerella iliaca iliaca (Merrem). Fox Sparrow. 

 Occasional winter visitant. Specimens taken as follows: .Male by J. H. 



Bowles at Santa Barbara, January 1, 1911 (Auk xxvin. 1911, 175). Unsexed 

 specimen by J. E. Law in the San Fernando Valley, Los Angeles County, March 

 22, 1908, and female by A. B. Howell in the same locality, November 11, 1911 

 (Condor xiv, 1912, 41). Male by A. van Rossem at Pasadena, December 13, 

 1907. Male by A. M. Ingersoll near San Diego, January 3, 1888 (Bryant, Proc. 

 Cal. Acad. Sci., ser. 2, n, 1889, 90). 



285. (585a) Passerella iliaca unalaschcensis (Gmelin). Shumagin 

 Fox Sparrow . 



Occasional in winter, south at least to Los Angeles County and San Cle- 

 mente Island. J. Grinnell took a female on \Yilson'> Peak, Los Angeles 

 County, December 12, 1896. A. van Rossem took an adult male at Pasadena. 

 February 4, 1910, and J. F. Law took a specimen at Pomona, December 2?, 

 1901. C. B. Linton took a female on San Clemente Island. November 30. 

 1908 (Condor xi, 1909, 194). 



J. Grinnell has recently described a new race of fox sparrow- from the 

 Prince William Sound region. Alaska, giving it the name of Passerella iliaca 

 siiiiiosa. He states that this form is nearest to P. i. unalaschcensis, but differs 

 from it in smaller and slenderer bill, in larger and heavier spotting beneath and 

 much slatier tone of coloration throughout ( Univ. Calif. Publ. Zool. v, 1910, 



