BIRDS OF THE PACIFIC DISTRICT. 155 



172. Spizella monticola ochracea Brewst. WESTERN 

 TREE SPARROW. 



British Columbia. John Fannin. Common summer 

 resident. 



Fort Walla Walla. Winter of 1881-82. Bendire. 

 (Bull. N. 0. C., vol. 7, 225.) 



Henshaw, 1879. Seen upon the Columbia River in 

 October. 



Camp Harney. Bendire. Moderately abundant dur- 

 ing the winter months. 



Hoffman. Common throughout the northern regions; 

 farther south more sparingly and only in the more ele- 

 vated and fertile areas. 



Ridgway. During the winter common and very gen- 

 erally distributed through the valleys of the western 

 depression of the Great Basin. Truckee Meadows, 

 November 19. 



173. Spizella socialis arizonae Coues. WESTERN CHIP- 

 PING SPARROW. 



San Diego. Rare migrant; perhaps a few breed in the 

 vicinity; the first seen at San Diego, 1884, was on March 

 21, a pair. L. B. 



Poway. F. E. Blaisdell. First, April 7, 1884. 



Julian. N. S. Goss. First, April 5, 1884. 



San Bernardino. F. Stephens. Tolerably common 

 summer resident of the valley. Agua Caliente, March, 

 1884. Common. Seen April 1 and 8, 1886. 



Henshaw, 1876. Pretty well diffused in the southern 

 half of California; Santa Cruz Island, June. 



Santa Catalina Island. F. Stephens. August, 1886, 

 common. 



Santa Cruz. Joseph Skirm. Tolerably common sum- 

 mer resident. 



San Jose. A. L. Parkhurst. March 28, 1884, first. 



