112 INK \\i:STERN SAVANNA SFARROW. 



(iciu-ral Wanxc. Kastcni Nnrtli America breeding from the northern 

 liiited Stales lu Labrador and tlie Hudson I'.ay country; casuaK?) in the 

 Western I'nited States. 



Range in WashinRton. — Imperfectly made out; many birds resident on 

 W'est-siile believed to be of tiiis form. 



.Authorities. -Bowles and Dawson, .\uk. \'ol. XX\'. Oct. n>)8, p. 483. 



Specimens. -Howies, Taconia, .Xjiril 2S, 1907 (4). 



SOME si)cciincns ue get on Tuj^ct Sound are no larger than tyi)ical 

 U'cslcni Savanna. Init arc more strongly and lirigiitly colored — handsome 

 enough to l)e .unulwichciisis proper. .\re these rcsaturated forms the bleached 

 aliiiKliiius. so long resident in the wet country as to he now reassuming 

 the discarded tints of old? .\re they, rather, intergrades l)etween P. s. sami- 

 'u'icliciisis and P. s. aliJiiditius, theoretically resident on the lower Sound and 

 in 1>. C? Or are thev casual overflows of true sa'amuj, ignorant of our 

 western metes and Ixninds? I do not know. Tweedledum or tweedlerlee? 

 Here is a fine ])robiem for the man with a gim, to whom a new subs])ecies 

 is more than the lives of a thousand innocents. lUit I disclaim all res|)onsi- 

 bilil\ in tlie m.itter. 



No. 43. 



WESTERN SAVANNA SPARROW. 



A. O. U. No. 54-Jb. Passerculiis sandwichensis alatidinus i i'.onap. ). 



S) nonym. — ("iRav S.vvann.mi Si'akkow. 



Description.— Similar to P. s. S(r<attna hut decidedly paler and grayer; less 

 liav or iic.ne in edging of feathers of upi)erparts; yellow of superciliary stripe 

 usiiallv j>aler. sometimes nearly white: bill longer and relatively weaker. Other 

 diiiunsidiis about as in P. s. S(i:aiiiia. 



Recognition Marks. — As in preceding — />(i/cr. 



Nesting. — Xcst: in grassy meadow, of dried grasses settled (lee])ly into dead 

 grass or, rarely, into ground. Ef/ys: 4 or 3, grayish white to light bluish green, 

 profusely dotted or siiottcd and blotched with varying shades of brown and 

 slate, sometimes so heavily as to conceal the ground color. Av. size. .75 x .55 

 ( 19 X 1 3.071- Season: third week in May; one brood. 



General Range. — Western North .America from the eastern border of the 

 Great Plains breeding from the plateau of Mexico to northwestern .Alaska; in 

 winter smith to I,. iwer California and Ciuatemala. 



Range in Washington. — I'.oth sides of the Cascades in low-lying meadows. 

 Perhaps sparingly resident in winter on West-side. 



