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141. Spizella atrogularis (Cabanis) 
BLACK-CHINNED SPARROW 
Spizella atrogularis (1) Linton, Condor, x1, 1909, p. 194. (2) Grinnell, Pac. Coast Avif., 
ial, als), To, abt) 
The single record is of a female shot by C. B. Linton (7) on San Clemente 
Island, December 5, 1908. 
142. Junco hyemalis thurberi Anthony 
THURBER JUNCO 
Junco hiemalis oregonus (1) Mailliard, Bull. Cooper Orn. Club, 1, 1899, p. 45. 
Junco hyemalis thurberi (2) Linton, Condor, x, 1908, p. 85. (3) Linton, Condor, x, 1908, 
p. 128. (4) Willett, Pac. Coast Avif., 7, 1912, p. 82. 
Junco oreganus oreganus (5) Grinnell, Pac. Coast Avif., 11, 1915, p. 120. 
Junco oreganus thurberi (6) Grinnell, Pac. Coast Avif., 11, 1915, p. 120. 
Rare winter visitant. C. B. Linton (2) collected a bird on San Clemente 
Island, October 13, 1907, he (4) saw one on San Nicolas, March 31, 1910, and (3) 
took a pair on Santa Cruz November 28, 1907. In the latter locality J. Mailliard 
(1) shot a female in April, 1898, which he aseribed to oregonus. He (MS) now, 
however, believes that it is thurberv. 
143. Amphispiza belli (Cassin) 
BELL SPARROW 
Poospiza belli (1) Cooper, Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci., tv, 1870, p. 78. (2) Cooper, Land Birds 
Calif., 1, 1870, p. 204. 
Amphispiza belli (3) Townsend, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., x1, 1890, p. 140. (4) Belding, 
Land Birds Pac. Dist., 1890, p. 162. (5) Keeler, Zoe, 1, 1891, p. 340. (6) Grinnell, 
Pasadena Acad. Sci., 1, 1897, p. 18. (7) Breninger, Auk, xx1, 1904, p. 221. (8) Lin- 
ton, Condor, x, 1908, p. 85. (9) A. O. U. Check-list, 3d ed., 1910, p. 269. (10) Wil- 
lett, Pac. Coast Avif., 7, 1912, p. 82. (71) Grinnell, Pac. Coast Avif., 11, 1915, p. 121. 
Amphispiza belli clementae (12) Ridgway, Auk, xv, 1898, p. 230. (13) A. O. U. Commit- 
tee, Auk, xvi, 1901, p. 318. (14) Mearns, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., ivi, 1907, p. 141. 
Amphispiza belli belli (15) Ridgway, Birds North & Mid. Am., 1, 1901, p. 268. 
Bell Sparrow (/6) Willett, Condor, x11, 1910, p. 171. 
Common resident of San Clemente, San Nicolas and Santa Rosa islands. R. 
Ridgway (12) described a subspecies, A. b. clementae, from San Clemente, simi- 
lar to belli in coloration, but larger and with a relatively larger bill. The differ- 
ence, however, has not been considered to be sufficiently pronounced to justify 
the recognition of the subspecies. On San Clemente the species is common on 
the mesa lands back from the shore, and L. M. Huey and I found several nests 
with pipped eggs and young the latter part of March, 1915. They were situated 
in scrubby brush a few inches above the ground. 
J. G. Cooper (1, 2) reported a specimen of the Bell Sparrow from Santa 
Barbara Island. There is a specimen of Melospiza m. graminea in juvenal plum. 
age, in the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology at Berkeley, from Santa Barbara Isl- 
and, marked in Dr. Cooper’s handwriting ‘‘May 30, 1863, Poospiza belli or Peu- 
