104 THE Ww EST ERN | 5 ARK ‘SP: ARROW. 
browns or purplish blacks, chiefly at the larger end; notably rounded in shape. 
Avy. size .82 x .65 (20.8x 16.5). Season: May 15-June 5; one brood, rarely two. 
General Range.—Western United States and plateau of Mexico; north to 
middle British Columbia, Manitoba, etc.; east to eastern border of Great Plains; 
west to Pacific Coast, including peninsula of lower California; south in winter to 
Guatemala. 
Taken in . 3 Photo by 
Douglas County. SURE Neh ; ‘ the Author. 
A SAGE-BUSH NEST. 
Range in Washington.—Summer resident east of Cascades only, in Upper 
Sonoran and Arid Transition zones. 
Migrations.—Wallula, May 6, 1907; Yakima Co., May 1, 1906; ibid, May 
3, 1900; Chelan, May 10, 1896. 
puithortbess ly Waser lark finch,’ Johnson, Rep. Gov. W. T., 1884 
(1885), 22.] Belding, Land Birds Pacific District (1890), p. 148 (Walla Walla 
I Wir WallranmsarSS5))eme(ls)an(C&S3) 2am 2505S smo seee 
Specimens.—(U. of W.) C. P. 
AS in the case of the Sandwich and Savanna Sparrows, the curiously 
striped coloration of this bird’s head is evidently intended to facilitate ae 
ment. The bird peering out of a weed clump is almost invisible. And vet, 
I was once passing along a sage-clad hillside in Chelan county with an ee: 
