1913] Grin iicU-Sicartli : Birds and Mammals of San Jacinto 271 



grown juvenals in Round Valley, July 26, and Tahquitz Valley, 

 July 29. might be taken as such. 



Small flocks encountered in Strawberry Valley in July were 

 feeding on thistles. At Hemet Lake. August 5 to 14, they were 

 several times noted feeding in weed patches in the open meadows 

 about the lake. 



Thirteen specimens were taken: Round Valley, four (nos. 

 2115, 2201, 2777, 2778), Tahquitz Valley, two (nos. 2776, 2779), 

 Strawberry Valley, five (nos. 2657-2661), Hemet Lake, oi.e (no. 

 3003), Santa Rosa Peak, one (no. 2425). 



Passerculus sandwichensis alaudinus Bonaparte 

 Western Savannah Sparrow 



Several, migrants undoubtedly, were seen in an alfalfa patch 

 near the station at Cabezon. May 4. Small sparrows, not defin- 

 itely identified but supposed to be of this species, were seen in 

 the grassy fields at the upper end of Hemet Lake on several 

 occasions between August 11 and 15. 



Ammodramus savannarum bimaculatus Swainson 

 Western Grasshopper Sparrow 

 The discovery of this species breeding in the San Jacinto 

 Mountains was an unexpected result of the season's work. The 

 birds were seen at but one point, in a meadow at Schain's Ranch. 

 altitude 4900 feet, where several were noted, and three secured. 

 The specimens taken (nos. 1799-1801) were an adult male, June 

 28, and an adult male and a juvenile female, June 29. As several 

 others were seen and as both adults taken were males, there 

 were apparently at least two pairs of the birds with their broods 

 in this little meadow. The young secured is in the streaked, 

 juvenile plumage, and there seems little reason to doubt that it 

 was hatched in the immediate vicinity. 



Chondestes grammacus strigatus Swainson 

 Western Lark Sparrow 

 A common species in the valleys west of the mountains, 

 extending eastward through San Gorgonio Pass. Seen in abund- 



