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California, specimens have been taken from October 22 (Arroyo Seco, 

 near Pasadena) to February 14 (San Dimas Caiion). The only inland 

 points where specimens have been taken are Hume, Fresno County 

 (in the Sierra Nevada at 5300 feet), September 26, at Stockton, San 

 Joaquin County, November 28, and at Tower House, Shasta County, 

 March 8, one specimen at each place. Specimens of annectens from 

 Clayoquot, Vancouver Island, September 17, from Kalama, Cowlitz 

 County, Washington, October 18, and from Beaverton, Washington 

 County, Oregon, from February 25 to April 22, are presumably 

 migrants. 



It is a point worth noting that not only are the limits of the 

 winter habitat sharply defined and not only are by far the greater 

 number of these birds found in this habitat, but also a large propor- 

 tion of the stragglers found elsewhere are not absolutely typical of 

 the subspecies. Intergrades occur, linking annectens with sinuosa, 

 on the one hand, and with townsendi, on the other, and many of the 

 individuals taken outside the usual winter habitat are of such equivocal 

 character, though referred to annectens as the form they most nearly 

 approach. 



Passerella iliaca townsendi (Audubon) 

 Townsend Fox Sparrow 



Original description. — " Plectrophanes townsendi Audubon, Birds Anier. 

 (folio), volume IV, part 85, plate 424, figure 7, engraved, printed and colored by 

 Eobert Havell, 1838. 



"FringiUa townsendi Audubon, Ornithological Biography, vol. V, p. 236, 1839. 

 ' Shores of the Coliunbia Eiver. 



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Type specimen. — No. 2874, U. S. Nat. Mus. ; female adult ; Colum- 

 bia River, Oregon ; February 15, 1836 ; collected by J. K. Townsend. 



Range. — In summer the coast region of southern Alaska, on islands 

 and mainland, from Glacier Bay and Lynn Canal south to Forrester 

 Island; also on the Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia. 



In winter south on the coast of northern California ; to Humboldt 

 Bay, abundantly, to the San Francisco Bay region in small numbers. 

 One specimen from Arizona. 



Specimens examined. — 155 (see list, pp. 197-199). 



* These references are copied verbatim, as given me by Mr. W. H. Osgood, 

 Assistant Curator, Mammalogy and Ornithology, Field Museum of Natural 

 History, from copies in the library of that institution, the works cited not being 

 available for my own personal inspection. I wish here to express my appreciation 

 of his courtesy in supplying me with the needed references. Authors in citing 

 the original description of this subspecies give sometimes one and sometimes the 

 other of the above volumes, or a mixture of the two under one heading (cf. A. O. U. 

 Cheek-List, 1910, p. 278; Eidg\vay, 1901, p. 393), a procedure tliat is apt to 

 cause confusion where the actual circumstances are not understood. 



