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thought to be about six days old. She was very shy about ap- 
proaching the nest, and several visits to the locality were neces- 
sary before the nest was found. 
The species was again found at Port Frederick, July 25 to 
August 1; and at Idaho Inlet it was also detected. At Bear Bay, 
Baranof Island, Stephens found the Forbush sparrow common in 
the beach erass, August 21 to 27. And at Helm Bay, on the 
mainland, one was shot and another seen September 16. 
Passerella iliaca townsendi (Audubon). 
Townsend Fox Sparrow. 
Of the splendid series of thirty-two skins of this species ob- 
tained, fifteen are from Admiralty Island (Nos. 485-499), eight 
are from Chichagof Island (Nos. 457-460, 520-523), six from 
Baranof Island (Nos. 440, 501-505), two from Glacier Bay (Nos. 
510, 511), and one from Helm Bay (No. 450). After a close 
serutiny I am unable to discern any variation accompanying 
difference in locality. The two from Glacier Bay happen to be 
full-grown juvenals. These might be expected to depart slightly 
towards meruloides of the Alaskan coast farther northwest: but 
as far as I can see they are identical with two juvenals from 
Chichagof Island. The individual variation in the series is 
remarkably little; the extreme of darkness is but a trifle more 
sooty than the opposite extreme, which is a deep vandyke brown 
with a hint of a chocolate tinge. I compared two of the speci- 
mens from Admiralty Island showing average characters with 
the skin in the United States National Museum considered to be 
the type of townsendi. The latter is a winter bird from the 
Columbia River. The former I found to be somewhat more sooty 
than this type, therefore showing some of the character ascribed 
to fuliginosa. (See Ridgeway, Bds. N. & Mid. Am., Part T, 1901, 
pages 392-394. ) 
The Townsend fox sparrow proved to be widely distributed 
throughout the region explored, occurring commonly, as land 
birds go, in this sort of country. At Windfall Harbor, Admir- 
alty Island, it was plentiful April 17 to May 19. Dixon secured 
a nest and four slightly ineubated eggs there May 3, together 
