GROSBEAKS, FINCHES, SPARROWS: Family Fringillidae [565] 



Goshen, Lane County, July 2.1, 192.7. Woodcock (1902.) considered it an 

 uncommon summer resident and breeder at Corvallis, where he found 

 three June nests, all in apple trees at heights of from 4 to 8 feet from the 

 ground. He also recorded Ellis F. Hadley's report of it as a "not uncom- 

 mon summer resident" at Dayton. Johnson A. Neff (ms.) reported it 

 from Corvallis, April i, 192.5, the most northern recent record we have 

 for the Willamette Valley. The species appears regularly in the Biological 

 Survey manuscript notes for the eastern and southern sections of the State. 

 One record by Sheldon is of a nest containing five fresh eggs from Home- 

 stead, Baker County, June 9, 1916. Patterson reported eggs from May 14 

 to 2.7. A few stragglers stay behind and possibly winter in southern 

 Oregon, as we have scattered records for the Rogue River Valley as late 

 as December 14. 



Desert Sparrow: 



Amphispi^a bilineata deserticola Ridgway 



DESCRIPTION. "Adults: Lores and throat patch black; sides of head dark gray with 

 two white stripes, under parts mainly white; upper parts plain grayish brown; tail, 

 except middle feathers, marked with white. Young: without distinct black mark- 

 ings; throat white often marked with gray; chest streaked; wing coverts and edges 

 of tertials light buffy brown. Male: length (skins) 4.90-5.45, wing 1.51-1.78, tail 

 2.. 40-1. 69, bill -39-.41. Female: length (skins) 4.80-5.10, wing 1.45-1.60, tail 

 1.31-1.49, bill .36-. 41." (Bailey) Nest: In shrubs, made of grass and plant stems 

 and lined with feathers, hair, and wool. Eggs: 3 or 4, bluish white. 



DISTRIBUTION. General: Breeds from northeastern California, northern Nevada, 

 Utah, and Colorado south into Mexico. Winters from southern United States 

 southward. In Oregon: Known only from two records as rare straggler. 



THIS SOUTHERN BIRD, the Desert Sparrow, has straggled into Oregon 

 twice, both times in Harney County. Jewett (1913^ recorded two speci- 

 mens taken on Wright's Point, June 2.4 and 2.5, 1908, by William L. 

 Finley and Herman T. Bohlman. These skins are now in Finley's pos- 

 session. The other record is of a skin (Jewett Collection No. 1065) taken 

 by Jewett, July 15, 1911, at Silver Lake, in Harney County, not many 

 miles from the spot where the first birds were taken. Although both of 

 us have spent a great deal of time in the sagebrush country of the south- 

 eastern part of the State we have failed to detect this species in recent 

 years. 



Northern Sage Sparrow: 



Ampbispi%a nevadensis nevadensis (Ridgway) 



DESCRIPTION. "Adults: Sides of throat with a series of narrow blackish streaks, but no 

 continuous stripe; chest with black spot; sides and flanks faintly tinged with light 

 brown; rest of under parts whitish; upper parts light grayish brown, back usually 



