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Further observations were made on this White-crowned Sparrow 

 south of Monterey County during the summer, and while no fresh 

 nests were found, it was abundant in all suitable localities south- 

 ward to Point Conception. That the species was actually within 

 its breeding range wherever found is evident from the following 

 facts. The records were all taken before the end of July, and it is 

 doubtful if migration en masse had occurred, especially as the sub- 

 species makes no extensive migrations at all. The sparrow was 

 not observed back of its breeding zone, nor on the narrow barriers 

 which cut its range at several points, thus indicating that the breed- 

 ing area was still being occupied. Finally at the various southern 

 record stations to be given, both adults and half-grown young were 

 seen; the bob-tailed young near Point Arguello, for instance, 

 could hardly have moved far south along the wind swept coast. 

 The following records then, are doubtless all within the breeding 

 records of the subspecies. 



Many individuals were seen in the sandy Aricmisia-Lupinus 

 belt about Piedras Blancas (May 31), but none were found near-by 

 where the coast line is hilly (June 1-5), and none were seen in the 

 pine forests near Cambria (May 29). Adults and half -grown birds 

 were plentiful in the sand dune region just north of Morro Rock, 

 but absent in the marshy area about the mouth of Morro Creek; 

 at the town of Morro they were seen busily picking up scraps about 

 the wharves and the huts of the fishermen, who are well acquainted 

 with the bird; both adults and half-grown young were further 

 abundantly observed on the sage covered plain skirting the east 

 shore of Morro Bay, north of the marshy mouth of Los Osos Creek; 

 they were not found on the adjacent hill-slopes (June 6-9). 



The record-stations given in the preceding paragraph are in San 

 Luis Obispo County. From the same county Willett 1 has pub- 

 lished a note on this form. He wrote: "The commonest of the 

 smaller land birds was the Nuttall Sparrow (Zonotrichia leucophrys 

 nuttalli) which was breeding abundantly in the low brush from the 

 water's edge to a mile or more back into the hills and canyons" 

 (near Port Hartford). The writer observed the species in the 

 same locality but did not find it in the hills (May 23-29). It was 



' Condor, 11, 1909, p. 1S5. 



