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-105, -106). J. II. Bowles took several specimens at Santa Barbara during the 

 winter of 1 *>1 0- 1 1 which he considers referable to this new race (Auk xxvin, 

 1911, 175). 



286. (585b) Passerella iliaca megarhyncha Baird. Thick-billed Fox 

 Sparrow. 



Common winter visitant on brushy mountain sides and along water courses 

 of the lower country. Also on the Santa Barbara Islands. Noted by J. Grin- 

 nell at Pasadena from October 10 (1896) to April 17 « 1897 ) (Pub. 2, Pasa- 

 dena Acad. Sci., 1898/ 39). I took an adult female on Santa Cruz Island, 

 November 24, 1907, and A. van Rossem took a pair on Catalina Island, Feb- 

 ruary 15, 1910. 



287. (585c) Passerella iliaca schistacea Baird. Slate-colored Fox 

 Sparrow. 



Occasional winter visitant. Specimens taken as follows: Female by 

 11. S. Swarth at Los Angeles, December 14, 1896 (Condor n. 1900, 39). 

 Female, also by Mr. Swarth, in Millard's Canon, near Pasadena, February 11, 

 1901 (Condor in. 1901, 66). Fight specimens by H. W. Marsden near Witch 

 Creek, San Diego County, in December, 1904 (Bishop, Condor yii. 1905, 142). 

 ( )ne specimen by F. E. Blaisdell at Poway, San Diego Comity, April 1 ( > I Bel 1- 

 ing, Land Bds. Pac. Dist, 1890, 171). 



288. (585d) Passerella iliaca stephensi Anthony. Stephens Fox Spar- 

 row. 



Common in summer on the higher mountains, from the San Jacinto Range 

 north to the Sierras of southern Tulare County. More widely distributed 

 in winter, at which season it occurs north to Marin Count}- and, probably, 

 south to Lower California, although, as yet, no specimens are recorded from 

 the latter locality. Type specimens taken by A. W. Anthony in the San 

 Jacinto Mountains. July 14, 1895 (Auk xn, 1895, 348). 



Found by J. Grinnell in summer of 1911 on the west side of the Sierras 

 in Tulare County ( Mailliard, Condor xiv, 1 ( )12, 66), and in summer of 1904 

 on Mt. Pinos, Ventura Count}-, and its westward spur, Sawmill Mountain. 

 A half-grown fledgling was taken June 29 (Auk xxn. 1905, 388). Mr. Grin- 

 nell also found young just able to fly at Dry Lake, ( X)00 feet altitude in the 

 San Bernardino Mountains, June 22, 1905 (Univ. Calif. I'ubl. Zool. v, 1908, 

 99). Me failed, however, to find the nest, and 1 had the same experience at 

 Hear Valley and Bluff Lake, San Bernardino Mountains, although I found 

 the birds very common in these localities in June, 1907. The}- seemed to be 

 principally confined to the patches of low, thorny bushes known as "moun- 

 tain misery," and were plentiful above 7000 feet, mostly on north slopes. 



There have been very few specimens of this bird taken in southern Cal- 

 ifornia in winter. In fact, the only winter record for the coast district at the 

 present time is of two birds taken on Catalina Island and now in the I". S. 

 National Museum. Specimens were taken by F. S. Spaulding on Little Pine 

 Mountain, one of the higher peaks in the hills of Santa Barbara Count}-, at 



