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Melospiza melodia cooperi (Ridgway). 
San Diego Song Sparrow. 
Song sparrows were fairly common and undoubtedly breeding 
each year in the immediate vicinity of Seven Oaks. Adults taken 
there June 13 and July 8, 1905, present the characters of cooperi, 
the race occupying the San Diegan district of southern Cali- 
fornia. Several were noted June 9, 1906, about a cienaga and 
ranch on Mill ereek near the mouth of Mountain Home creek. 
A full-grown juvenal was secured at Bluff lake July 24, 1905, 
and another in the process of moult near the same place August 
30. <A bird-of-the-year in moulting plumage was taken at the 
cienaga at the north base of Sugarloaf on August 19. In each 
of these latter cases we presumed that the birds had wandered 
up from their breeding grounds in the lower canons. It is gen- 
erally the young which strike out soonest after the nesting season, 
in search of new feeding grounds. No adults were taken at these 
higher altitudes. Six examples of this species were secured. 
Melospiza lincolnii lincolnii (Audubon). Lineoln Sparrow. 
The Lincoln sparrow was met with in only two general loeal- 
ities, at the extensive cienagas at the head of the South Fork of 
the Santa Ana, 8000 to 9000 feet altitude, and around Bluff lake, 
7200 to 7500 feet altitude. In the former locality on June 27 to 
30, 1905, when I was camped there, fully a dozen adults were 
seen, some carrying bills full of insects and others singing a 
wheezy, incoherent song from the tips of dead willow stalks. 
They were very seeretive and kept pretty much out of sight in 
the rank Veratrum patches and willow thickets. The species was 
noted in the same loeality at various other times during June and 
July. I saw a brood of bob-tailed young at a cienaga just over 
the divide from the upper South Fork towards Hathaway Flats, 
about 7500 feet altitude, August 17, 1907, and obtained one. In 
the Bluff lake cienaga itself, where a full-grown young one was 
taken July 22, we saw but few; but the last of August and up 
to September 3, 1905, we learned more of their haunts and habits, 
and found them relatively numerous in the many marshy ciena- 
gas to the northeastward, down on the slope towards Bear valley. 
