148 THE KADIAK FOX SPARROW. 
tinkup perly werly willie willie weeee (dim.)” said one; “Riggle, jiggle, eet 
eet eet eer oor,” another. “Che willy willy willy che quill”; “Lee lee lee 
quilly willy willy,” and other such, came with full force and freshness at a 
hundred yards to the listeners on the back porch at Longmire’s. 
When studied in the swamp, the Lincoln Finches were found to be 
more reluctant than Song Sparrows to expose themselves, but one pair, 
anxious for their young, sat out against a clear sky again and again. The 
bird was seen occasionally to erect its crown feathers in inquiry or excite- 
ment, as do Chipping Sparrow, Nuttall Sparrow, et al. A Yellow Warbler, 
stumbling into the manorial bush, was set upon furiously; but she made off 
philosophically, knowing that her punishment was after the accepted code. 
A Rusty Song Sparrow, however, was allowed to sit quietly at a foot’s 
remove, not, apparently, because he was so much bigger, nor even because 
nearer of kin, but rather because of common parental anxiety. The contrast 
here was instructive; the Lincoln Sparrow being not only smaller but more 
lightly colored and with a sharp-cut streakiness of plumage. A comparison 
of many examples showed the similarity of head pattern between the two 
Sparrows to be very noticeable, while the buffy tinge of the Lincoln’s breast 
would appear to be one of its least constant marks. 
An alleged sub-species, Forbush’s Sparrow, M. 1. striata, “Similar to 
M. lincolui but superciliary stripes and upperparts more strongly olivaceous, 
and dark streaks especially on back and upper tail-coverts, coarser, blacker, 
and more numerous,” has been ascribed to British Columbia and western 
Washington, but the material at hand is meager and inconclusive, and the 
proposed form has been passed upon adversely by Ridgway. 
No. 60. 
KADIAK FOX SPARROW. 
A. O. U. No. 585 a (part). Passerella iliaca insularis Ridgway. 
[Description of Passerella iliaca unalaschensis (Shumagin Fox Sparrow).— 
Adults: “Pileum and hindneck brownish gray or grayish brown (nearly hair 
brown) passing into clear gray (mouse gray or smoke gray) on superciliary 
region and sides of neck; auricular region brownish gray, with narrow and indis- 
tinct shaft streaks of whitish ; back, scapulars, and rump plain hair brown; greater 
wing-coverts, tertials and upper tail-coverts dull cinnamon brown, the rest of 
wings intermediate between the last named color and color of back, except edges 
of outermost primaries, which are pale hair brown; underparts white, the fore- 
neck, sides of throat (submalar region), chest, and sides of breast marked with 
triangular spots of deep grayish brown or drab; the flanks broadly streaked or 
striped with the same (both sides and flanks mostly grayish brown laterally) 
