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through the farming country about Stockton. I first 

 noticed them at Sacramento, Marysville and Gridley in 

 the spring of 1888. They nest early and often in Cali- 

 fornia, beginning to breed early in March in the interior 

 of the State. L. B. 



190. Passerella iliaca (Merr.) Fox SPARROW. 



[A male taken near San Diego, January 3, 1888, by 

 A. M. Ingersoll. See Proc. Cal. Acad., ser. 2, ii, 90. 

 W. E. B.] 



191. Passerella iliaca unalaschcensis (Gmel.) TOWN- 

 SEND'S SPARROW. 



British Columbia. John Faniiin. Common summer 

 resident. 



Washington Territory. Cooper, 1860. Only a winter 

 resident. Most common in the interior, but in very 

 cold weather seeks the coast. 



Willamette Valley. 0. B. Johnson. Only a winter 

 visitor. 



Sebastopol. F. H. Holmes. Tolerably common win- 

 ter visitant; first seen September 24, 1884. 



Gridley. L. B. September 25, 1884, first; Big Trees, 

 September 25, 1880; Summit, September 28, 1885, a 

 dozen. These are my only dates of arrival from the 

 north. I saw it up to March 15, 1884, at San Diego. 

 It is a rare winter visitant to the low parts of Califor- 

 nia, but then more common in the foothills. 



Berkeley. T. S. Palmer. Common winter resident. 

 Last seen February 14, 1886. 



Alameda and Contra Costa counties. W. E. Bryant. 

 Tolerably common winter visitant. 



Henshaw, 1876. Early in October the mountains in 

 the vicinity of Mt. Whitney began to be thronged with 

 these birds. 



