[586] BIRDS OF OREGON 



Oregon, a supposition that will probably be revealed as a fact by more 

 consistent collecting than we have been able to carry out. Swarth (19x0) 

 listed specimens from Logan and Beaverton. Aside from these, we have 

 seven skins, three from Portland (February 2.2., 19x1, and April 5, 192.5, 

 Gabrielson; December 14, 19x4, Jewett), three from Netarts (one, January 

 13, 192.4, Gabrielson; two, December 30, 192,6, Jewett) and one from 

 Tillamook (December 19, 192.3, Jewett). 



Townsend's Fox Sparrow: 



Passerella iliaca townsendi (Audubon) 



DESCRIPTION. "Similar to P. i. annectens but coloration darker and more castaneous 

 brown, and spots on chest, etc., larger; above deep vandyke brown, duller (more 

 sooty) on pileum, more reddish (inclining to burnt umber or dark chestnut-brown) 

 on upper tail-coverts and tail; sides of head deep sooty brown, the lores dotted, the 

 auricular region finely streaked, with dull whitish; general color of under parts 

 white, but everywhere spotted or streaked with deep chestnut-brown or vandyke 

 brown, the spots mostly of triangular (deltoid and cuneate) form, very heavy and 

 more or less confluent on chest, smaller on throat and breast; sides and flanks almost 

 uniform deep brown, the latter tinged with bufFy or pale tawny; under tail-coverts 

 deep olive or olive-brown, broadly margined with bufFy or pale fulvous." (Ridgway 

 1901.) Si%e: Length (skins) 6.10-7.17, wing 2.. 95-3. 2.7, tail 1.61-3.04, exposed 

 culmen .40-. 49. Nest and eggs: Same as for P. i. altivagans. 



DISTRIBUTION. General: Breeds in coast district of Alaska from Glacier Bay south 

 to Forrester Island and Queen Charlotte Islands. Winters south to Santa Cruz 

 County, California. In Oregon: Winters in western Oregon. 



THE DARK-COLORED Townsend's Fox Sparrow is slightly more reddish in 

 tone and slightly paler than the Sooty Fox Sparrow. It is somewhat less 

 common on the Oregon coast and decidedly less abundant inland than 

 that species. The earlier records are confused between these two dark 

 forms, and so far as we can discern the first authentic record for this 

 subspecies was that of Swarth (192.0) when he listed birds (many of them 

 from Jewett's collection from Portland), from Mercer, Grants Pass, and 

 Netarts. In addition to these localities, Jewett has birds from Florence, 

 in western Lane County, and there are numerous specimens from Tilla- 

 mook County. Like fuliginosa, it is decidedly more abundant on the 

 coastal slope than inland, evidently preferring the dense salal thickets 

 to the more open brushlands farther from the coast. It arrives from the 

 north in October (earliest date, October 12.) and remains until March 

 (latest date, April 12.). 



Sooty Fox Sparrow: 



Passerella iliaca fuliginosa Ridgway 



DESCRIPTION. The darkest and most heavily marked of the races. The spots on the 

 breast are dull and sooty with little reddish color. (Adapted from Swarth.) Si^e: 



