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390 (585g) Passerella iliaca townsendi (Audubon) 
TOWNSEND Fox SPARROW 
Status—Winter visitant south through the northern humid coast belt: Bo- 
dega, and Humboldt Bay (Ridgway, Bds. N. & Mid. Amer., 1, 1901, p. 392) ; 
Farallon Islands, May 31 (Dawson, Condor, x1, 1911, p. 182). Specimens ex- 
amined by me from: Cuddeback, Humboldt County, one; Trinidad, Humboldt 
County, one; San Geronimo, Marin County, two; Berkeley, one; Oakland, one; 
Santa Cruz Mountains, one; Pacific Grove, one. 
391 (585e) Passerella iliaca fuliginosa Ridgway 
Soory Fox SPARROW 
Synonym—Passerella iliaca wnalaschcensis, part. 
Status—Winter visitant south along the northern humid coast belt to San 
Francisco (Ridgway, Bds. N. & Mid. Amer., 1, 1901, p. 394). 
392 (585) Passerella iliaca iliaca (Merrem) 
Fox-coLORED SPARROW 
Status—Rare midwinter visitant: specimen from ‘‘California’’ (Coues, 
Bds. Northwest, 1874, p. 161); intermediate examples from Saticoy, Ventura 
County, December 14 (Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Amer. Birds, m1, 
1874, p. 516) ; specimen from Poway, San Diego County, January 3 (W. E. Bry- 
ant, Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci., 2nd ser., m, 1889, p. 90) ; specimen from Oakland, 
December 2 (W. E. Bryant, Zoe, 11, 1893, p. 363) ; specimen from Big Sur River, 
Monterey County, December 27 (Pemberton, Condor, x, 1908, p. 50) ; specimen 
from Santa Barbara, January 1 (Bowles, Auk, xxvu, 1911, p. 175) ; specimen 
from Burbank, Los Angeles County, November 11 (Howell, Condor, xiv, 1912, 
p. 41) ; specimen from Mount Wilson, Los Angeles County, October 31 (no. 3233, 
Grinnell coll.). Several intermediate examples or possibly hybrids are contained 
in the available collections. The characters presented in nearly all of these cases 
point toward interbreeding of iliaca with schistacea. 
393 (585c, part) Passerella iliaca altivagans Riley 
ALBERTA F'0x SPARROW 
Status—Rare winter visitant to the northeastern section of the state, casu- 
ally south to Los Angeles County. Record stations: Fort Crook, near Burgett- 
ville, Shasta-County, specimen taken April 12, 1860 (Riley, Proc. Biol. Soe. 
Wash., xxiv, 1911, p. 235) ; Eagle Lake, Lassen County (specimens in Mailliard 
coll.) ; Signal Mt., near Cisco, Placer County, October 9, 1913 (no. 24298, Mus. 
Vert. Zool.) ; Pasadena, January 19, 1907 (no. 12021, Mus. Vert. Zool.). 
394 (585e, part) Passerella iliaca schistacea Baird 
SLATE-COLORED Fox SPARROW 
Synonyms—Passerella schistacea, part; Passerella townsendi var. schistacea. 
Status—Breeds sparingly in the Transition zone on mountains to the east 
of the Sierran divide: ‘‘eastern base of Mount Lassen’’ (Townsend, Proce. U. S. 
