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San Bernardino. F. Stephens. Rare winter visitant 

 to valley and foothills. 



Volcan Mountains. W. O. Emerson. Very common 

 along the creek in the thick brush until February 11. 

 The snow then must have driven them down nearer the 

 coast. Only one was seen after February 11. 



Poway, F. E. Blaisdell. A specimen November 17. 



San Diego. L. B. Rare winter visitant; probably 

 goes but little south of San Diego. 



192. Passerella iliaca megarhyncha (Baird). THICK- 

 BILLED SPARROW. 



San Diego. Rare winter visitor; April 1, 1884, last. 

 L. B. 



Poway. F. E. Blaisdell. Tolerably common in 

 canons; several specimens in April. 



Julian. N. S. Goss. April 17, 1 think it was nesting. 



Volcan Mountains. W. 0. Emerson. Single birds 

 seen February 9 and March 29. Both were in snow. 



San Bernardino. F. Stephens. Breeds at 8,000 feet 

 altitude; rare. 



Fort Tejon. Henshaw, 1876. Numerous enough in 

 August. 



Nicasio. C. A. Allen. 



L. B. Very common summer resident in fir forests of 

 Calaveras and Alpine counties up to 7,000 feet or more; 

 common in breeding season in Butte and Plumas coun- 

 ties, and probably farther north; tolerably common in 

 the forest at Sierra Valley, Donner Lake and vicinity in 

 summer; not at Alta and Colfax November 17-21, nor 

 at Red Bluff in warm winter of 1884-85. I never see 

 it in the lower foothills of Calaveras County in winter, 

 though P. unalaschcensis is common there at that time. 

 I found the first or earliest nest at Big Trees, June 14, 

 1879, June 12, 1880; nests here in snow bush or bear 

 bush (Ceanothus cordulatus). 



