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San Bernardino. F. Stephens. Rare summer resi- 

 dent of foothills. 



Cooper, 1870. Numerous on San Nicolas Island, 

 eighty miles from the mainland. They remain all the 

 year at the same localities. At San Diego I found the 

 young hatched May 18; think they are often earlier. 

 Common in the chaparral of the Santa Clara Valley. 



Henshaw. In the mountains near Fort Tejon it breeds 

 abundantly up to 5,000 or 6,000 feet. 



Contra Costa County. W.E.Bryant. Rare. Breeds. 



Nicasio. [North of San Francisco Bay], C. A. 

 Allen. 



Foothills of Calaveras County, rare resident. L. B. 



Heermann. In the fall of 1851 I first noticed this 

 species in the mountains bordering the Cosumnes River. 

 We found it in great numbers between Kern River and 

 the Tejon Pass and between the latter and Mojave River. 



180. Amphispiza belli nevadensis (Ridgw.) SAGE 

 SPARROW. 



Desert side of San Bernardino Mountains. F. Steph- 

 ens. 



Henshaw, 1876. Kernville, a single specimen and 

 saw others. 



Ridgway. Most numerous in the valleys of the west- 

 ern depression, few being seen in the Salt Lake Valley 

 where the A. bilineata was so abundant. In the neigh- 

 borhood of Carson it was by far the most abundant bird 

 of the open wastes and its abundance did not abate with 

 the approach of winter. They began singing toward 

 the last of February, and by the beginning of April 

 the first eggs were laid. On the 9th several nests were 

 found. 



Henshaw, 1879. Breeds abundantly among the Arte- 

 misia; less abundant in northeastern California than 

 southward. 



