148 CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. 



Henshaw, 1879. Lost sight of about 100 miles north 

 of Carson. 



Ben dire. In the immediate vicinity of Camp Harney 

 few specimens; at Juniper Lake, 80 miles south, quite 

 a number breeding. 



Ridgway. Exceedingly abundant in favorable local- 

 ities throughout the entire extent of the western region. 

 Specimens at Sacramento, Truckee and Salt Lake. 



Hoffman. Common in favorable localities over 

 nearly the whole of Nevada. 



Walla Walla. J. W. Williams. June 2, 1885, two; 

 next seen June 10; both specimens shot; not known if 

 it breeds. 



167. Zonotrichia leucophrys (Forst.) WHITE-CROWNED 

 SPARROW. 



San Diego, May 3, 1885, male, first; May 5, female, 

 ovaries very small; only about a dozen of the species, 

 seen this spring, none at any other time, neither in 

 spring of 1881 nor 1884. None seen by the Goss Broth- 

 ers at Julian from March 17 to May 15, 1884. L. B. 



Poway. F. E. Blaisdell. October 3, 1884, first; Oc- 

 tober 6 a flock [the first southern California fall record]. 



Henshaw, 1876. I found it in the high Sierra (Mt. 

 Whitney) in September in company with Z. intermedia, 

 forming, however, but a very small proportion of the 

 vast flocks of those birds. 



Blood's, Alpine County, altitude 7,2UO feet. W. E. 

 Bryant. Common, June 26, 1885, breeding. 



L. B. Common in summer in the subalpine mead- 

 ows from Alpine County to the northern part of Butte 

 County; probably has a much more extensive breeding 

 range in the Sierra than is here indicated; appears to- 

 winter entirely south of California; quite common in 

 Amador and Sierra counties on the east slope in breed- 



