[584] BIRDS OF OREGON 



on which they habitually feed. They are abundant migrants and common 

 winter residents of western Oregon. The relative abundance and breed- 

 ing ranges of our summer forms are discussed under each form. 



Shumagin Fox Sparrow: 



Passerella iliaca unalaschcensis (Gmelin) 



DESCRIPTION. "Upper parts reddish brown, more or less mixed with slaty gray, becoming 

 dark brown or foxy on rump, wings, and tail; under parts white, thickly marked 

 with triangular spots of dark brown converging on breast. Male: length (skins) 6.50- 

 6.70, wing 3.18-3.39, tail x. 88-1.98, bill .49-. 50. Female: length (skins) 6.zo-6.68, 

 wing 3.14-3.19, tail z. 71-2.. 80, bill .5O-.5Z." (Bailey) Nest and eggs: As for P. i. 

 altivagans. 



DISTRIBUTION. General: Breeds on base of Alaskan Peninsula, Shumagin Islands, 

 and Unalaska. Winters south to California. In Oregon: Rare straggler in migration. 



THERE ARE ONLY three specimens of the Shumagin Fox Sparrow from this 

 State known to us. One (Calif. Acad. Sci. Coll.) was taken at Portland, 

 November 7, 1911, and recorded by Swarth (192.0). The other (Jewett 

 Coll. No. 2.194) was taken near Bend, April 2.0, 1919. The species un- 

 doubtedly occurs more frequently than these two records indicate, the 

 lack of specimens being due to a scarcity of collectors rather than of 

 birds. Walker (19x6) published a record of a bird taken at Elaine, 

 February i, 192.3. Older records of Bendire, Merrill, and Anthony of this 

 form cannot certainly be identified with the present known conception 

 of any race and are therefore considered only as recording migrants of 

 the dark Alaska forms through the State. 



Kodiak Fox Sparrow: 



Passerella iliaca insularis Ridgway 



DESCRIPTION. "Like unalaschcensis but back warm sepia brown, spots on chest 

 large and deep brown, under tail coverts strongly tinged with buff." (Bailey) 

 Si%e: Wing 3-05-3.37, tail 2.. 78-3. 07, bill .46-. 50. Nest and eggs: Similar to those of 

 P. i. altivagans, 



DISTRIBUTION. General: Breeds on Kodiak Island. Winters in coast district south 

 to Los Angeles County, California. In Oregon: One of rarer migrants from the north, 

 so far as our collections show. 



WE HAVE THREE Oregon specimens of the Kodiak Fox Sparrow taken as 

 follows: Eagle Creek, Clackamas County (February 16, 1907, Jewett); 

 Portland (December 14, 192.4, Gabrielson); and near Pinehurst, Jackson 

 County (March -LL, 192.5, Jewett). We find two notations in the Bio- 

 logical Survey records of a specimen identified by Oberholser taken at 

 Corvallis, April 30, 1901, and there is a specimen in the Biological Survey 

 collection taken near the west base of Mount Jefferson, October 4, 1897, 

 byj. A. Loring. 



