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sumably breeding there. As, however, the Yolla Bolly Fox 

 Sparrow (P. i. brevicanda) had since that date been found to 

 be the fomi breeding in the mountains not far north of San- 

 hedrin, and as the breeding range of the Thick-billed Fox 

 Sparrow has never been definitely determined, (Swarth, Proc. 

 Biol. Soc. Wash., Vol. 31, p. 162) it seemed to be worth 

 while to follow this matter up, especially as we had been 

 examining the country not far to the south of this point, and 

 had found the Yolla Bolly to be quite common there in the 

 early spring, as shown in the first part of this paper. Hence 

 our further prospecting was planned with this end in view 

 and on May 16, Mr. Little and I proceeded, via Willits on 

 the Northwestern Pacific R. R., to a point from which, we 

 were informed, it would be an easy matter to reach the top 

 of Mt. Sanhedrin, this being a place called Hearst, on a fork 

 of the Eel River about 16 miles to the eastward of Willits, 

 We found that Hearst is only a post office which used to be 

 close to the county bridge, called the Hearst Bridge, but 

 which has been moved up the valley two miles and is now at 

 a summering place called Emandal. We staid at the Eel 

 River Inn, close to the Hearst Bridge. There is no actual 

 settlement in this part of the Eel River Valley other than an 

 occasional farmhouse or resort for hunters or fishermen. 



As had often before been the case we found the top of the 

 mountain much farther away than we had been led to sup- 

 pose, it being in this case about ten miles off, and not the 

 easy walk our informant had spoken of. There is a road, 

 however, leading through a large private holding at this spot 

 and at an opportune meeting with the owner permission was 

 obtained to use it, ordinarily kept closed by a locked gate. 

 On May 21 a rig was secured and with a chance acquaintance 

 Little succeeded in reaching a point from which he could find 

 his way to the top on foot, Sanhedrin is a long, ridge-like 

 mountain, and at this end no suitable brush for fox sparrows 

 was found, all this part of the summit being covered with a 

 dense growth — where the rock permitted any at all — of young 

 oaks about two feet high, which had apparently leaved out 

 early and had then been frostbitten, giving the whole growth 

 a reddish appearance that had been noted by us as far away 

 as the Hearst Bridge. 



