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rig. 4. Fort Tejon, Kern County, California. This locality is in the Upper 

 Sonoran zone, the buildings set amid hills whose slopes are covered with dense 

 chaparral. In the more level places there are many live oaks, and along the 

 streams, sycamores and thickets of willows. These are the characteristic sur- 

 roundings sought by the more northern subspecies of fox sparrow for their winter 

 home in southern California. Fort Tejon is the type locality of PmsereUa megar- 

 hynclms Baird, the type specimen, a winter bird, having been taken there some 

 time prior to 1858. Fort Tejon is the type locality for other species of birds also, 

 as well as for certain mammals and reptiles, hence is a point of special interest 

 as regards the early history of zoology in California. Tlie old fort, itself, is the 

 adobe building at the left, under the oak trees. Photograph taken July 24, 1918. 



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