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throughout the series other than individual. The individual 
variation is considerable, both as to coloration, and size of bill. 
Some examples are much more sooty than others, these latter in 
point of brownness closely approaching morphna; but their gen- 
erally larger size and longer bill are still diagnostic. One of the 
Glacier Bay birds, an adult male, is absolutely identical with 
one in the Grinnell collection from Sitka, both being breeding 
birds. Of the other two from Glacier Bay, one is a juvenal, and 
the other is a trifle grayer than Baranof Island birds, with the 
bill exhibiting an extreme of slenderness, possibly indicating a 
tendeney towards the race caurina of Yakutat Bay. But as 
above stated I can find no alternative but to include the entire 
series under the name rvfina. 
I quote Bonaparte’s description verbatim (Conspectus Avium, 
J, 1850, page 477): ‘‘Emberiza rufina, Brandt, Orn. Ross. t. 
2.5. e Sitka. Minor: rufo-cinereum, dorso maculis rufo-brun- 
neis; rostro producto, gracili.”’ 
It is fortunate that the locality is given, for otherwise the 
deseription would be equally applicable to several other North 
American species of the sparrow family. The description comes 
nearer fitting the song sparrow than any other of the sparrows 
occurring at Sitka. The authority of the name rufina has been 
eiven as Brandt; but apparently the first available description 
is that of Bonaparte, as quoted above. 
At Windfall Harbor, Admiralty Island, April 17 to May 19, 
song sparrows were searce, and only a few were seen. At Mole 
Harbor one was shot, May 27. At Killisnoo Dixon and Miss 
Alexander found song sparrows common on the beach, June 14 
to 16. At Hawk Inlet one was taken and others seen, August 
1 to 9: 
On Baranof Island it was found only at Bear Bay, August 
21 to 27, when Stephens secured four specimens. On Chichagof 
Island they were noted quite commonly about the old deserted 
Indian houses at Hooniah, June 21 to 27; young were seen there. 
At Glacier Bay many were seen on the Beardslee Islands in July; 
and at Helm Bay Stephens found the species fairly common 
September 10 to 17. 
A nest with a set of four shehtly incubated eges of the sooty 
