478 ORNITHOLOGY. 



lAM of specimens. 



151, <J ad.; valley of the Humboldt (Oreana), August 31, 1867. 6/5—10—3^23— 

 f — ^ — 2i| — Ifg. Upper mandible, plumbeous-black, tomiuin paler; lower, pure pale, 

 bluish-lilaceoHS basallj', the tip plumbeous; iris, bister; tarsi and toes, bluish-sepia. 



\ol,iad.; Camp 17, September 2, 1867. 6g— 10— 3^2|— ^-'g— H— 3^— 1^. Tarsi 

 and toes, purplish-black. 



182, ^ ad.; Wright's Cauon, West Humboldt Mountains, September 11, 1SG7. 

 6| — 8^ — 3^ — 2Ai — gl^i — 3^1J. Upper mandible, plumbeous-black, edged with whi- 

 tish ; lower, pale blue, the tip of the gonys dusky ; iris, hazel ; tarsi and toes, liver- 

 brown with a plumbeous cast. 



379, 9 ad.; Truckee Reservation, December 20, 1867. (Sage-brush of the mesa.) 

 7 — 9i — S^^ — '2f^ — j^g — ^ — 3 — Ij'g^. Upper mandible, plumbeous-slate; lower mandible 

 and commissure, pure, fine, light plumbeous-blue, the tip dusky; iris, reddish vandyke; 

 tarsi, deep sepia-browu ; toes, more blackish. 



380, ^ ad; same locality, date, etc. G^d^—3^—2^—y\ — a_3^1^. Same re- 

 marks. 



522, nest and eggs (2); Carson City, Nevada, April 27, 1868. 

 535, nest and eggs (3); Carson City, Nevada, April 27, 1868. 

 537, nest and eggs (3); same locality and date. (Nests on the ground, underneath 

 sage-bushes.) 



Spizella montigola. 



Ciiiiada Spstrrow; Tree Sparrow. 



Birds, 1859, No. 



Fringilla monticola, Gmelin, Syst. Nat., T, 1788, 912. 



Spizella monticola, Baird, Birds N. Am., 1858, 427 ; Cat. N. Am. 



357.— Cooper, Orn. Cal., I, 206.— Coues, Key, 1872, 142 ; Check List, 1873, 

 No. 177; Birds N.W., 1874, 146.— B. B. & E., Hist. N. Am. Birds, II, 1874, 

 3, pi. xxTii, flg. 5.— Henshaw, 1875, 277. 



During the winter this well-known Sparrow was common and very 

 generally distributed through the valleys of the western depression of the 

 Great Basin. As in the East, it associated with Snow-birds and White- 

 crowned SpaiTOws, although in this case its companions were diiferent 

 species (Junco oregonus and Zonotricliia intermedia, instead of J. hyemalis and 

 Z. leucophnjs). 



List of specimens. 



301, i ad.; Truckee Meadows, Nevada, November 19, 1867. 6|— 9J— 3^- 2ii— |— 



3 3 — 1|. Upper mandible, deep black, base of the culmen, yellow; lower mandible, 



citreous wax-yellow on basal two-thirds, then lilaceous-white, tlie tij) black: iris, 

 brown; tarsi, deep reddish sienua-brown ; toes, blackish-brown. 



