476 ORNITHOLOGY. 



123, juv.; Tnickcc Valley, August 6, 1867. 55_S^2|— 2:^— 2— g— 2|— 1*. Same 

 remarks. 



1G7, juv.; West Humboldt Monutains, September 4, 1807. 5| — 8^ — 2g — 2^\ — g — 

 g — 2.J — l.J. Same remarks. 



961," <? nd; Salt Lake City, Utah, May 20, 1869. 5g— 8J. Upper maudible and 

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

 purplish-plumbeous. 



1113, nest and eggs (3); Antelope Island, Great Salt Lake, June 5, 1809. Nest 

 in sage-bush. 



1120, 1127, nests and eggs (3, 1); Antelope Island, June 7, 1869. Nests in sage- 

 bushes, one foot from ground. 



1136, nest ; Antelope Island, June 8, 1809. 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.] 



Amphispiza NEVADENSIS. 



Artemisia Sparrow. 



{Tok -et-se-tvhah' of the Paiutes.) 



''Poospiza bclUi," Baird, B. N. Am., 1858, 470 (part); Cat. N. Am. B., 18.59, No. 



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



Check List, 1873, No. 173. [Not P. hellii, Cass.] 

 Poospiza hellii var. nemdemis, Ridgway, Bull. Essex Inst., V, Nov., 1873, 191.— 



CouBS, 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). 

 AnqjJdspiza hellii, 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 gi'owth 

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

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

 depression, few being seen in tln^ Salt Lake Valley, where the A. hilineata 

 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-brash one was almost certain to 



