476 ORNITHOLOGY. 



123, juv.; Trnckee Valley, AiiguRt(),lS07. 5g— 8J— 2|— 2^— g— g— ^g— lA. Saim' 

 remarks. 



lG7,j«i\; West lluiuboldt .AIouiit;iiiis, September 4, 1807. 5^ — ;i.^ — -^' — 2-?^^ — jj — 

 g — 2i — 1.3. Same remaik.s. 



'uca's ail.; Salt Lake City, Utah, May 20, l.SGi). .5.^—8*. Upper mandible and 

 tip (jf lower, deep black, rest of lower plumbeous-blue; iris, brown; tarsi and toes, 

 |inrpli.shi)lumbeous. 



111;?, nest and eggs (3); Antelope Lsland, Great Salt Lake, June 5, ISGO. Nest 

 in sage bu.sh. 



112G, 1127, nests and eggs (.'$, 1); Antelope Island, June 7, 18G9. Nests in sage- 

 buslies, one foot from ground. 



113G, nest ; Antelope Island, June 8, 1869. Sage-bush, one foot above ground. 



1195, 1196, nests and eggs (3); Salt Lake City, June 21, 1869. Nests in sage- 

 bushes, about one foot from ground. 



1402, 1403, nests ; valley of the Weber River, July, 1869. [J. C. Olmstead.J 



AMPmSPIZA NEVADENSIS. 

 Artemisia Sparrow. 



(Tok' -et-se-whaJi ot" the Paiutes.) 



"Poospiza belUi,^^ Baird, B. N. Am., 1858, 470 (part); Cat. N. Am. B., 18.50, No. 



356.— Cooper, Orn. Cal., I, 1870, 204 (part).— CouES, Key, 1872, 141 (part); 



Check List, 1873, No. 173. [Not i'. bellii, Cass.] 

 Poospiza bellii var. nevadensis, Ridgway, Bull. Essex Inst., V, Nov., 1873, 101. — 



CouES, Check List, 1873, App., p. 127.— B. B. & R., Hist. N. Am. B., I, 1874, 



594, pi. XXVI, fig. 9. — Henshaw, 1875, 275, pi. xi (adult). 

 Amphixpiza bellii, CoUES, B. N.W., 1874, 234 (part). 



The distribution of this species seems to be strictly governed by that 

 of the sage-brush plants, since it is present in nearly all districts where 

 these are found, while it is apparently wanting in localities of any other 

 description. It is most partial to the moister valleys, where the growth 

 is most thrifty, and in such places is generally the most abundant bird. 

 It was observed to be most numerous in the valleys of the western 

 depression, few being seen in the Salt Lake Valley, Avhere the A. hUineata 

 was so abundant; but it does occur there, as well as much farther east- 

 ward — at least to the valleys of Green River and its tributary streams. 

 In the neighborhood of Carson City it was by far the most abundant bird 

 of the open wastes, and its abundance did not abate with the approach 

 of winter. In walking through the sage-brush one was almost certain to 



