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found”! It is a common winter resident in the central and northern portions 
of California, and it has been found breeding on the higher mountains as far 
south as Los Angeles county. Its southward range in winter extends into 
northern Mexico. 
Pooecetes gramineus affinis MILLER. 
OREGON VESPER SPARROW. 
Pooecetes gramineus confinis (not of Batrp) BExpine, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., VI. 
1883, 350 (La Paz and s.). 
Poocaetes gramineus confinis (not of Barrp) Bryant, Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci., 2d. ser., 
II. 1889, 298 (near La Paz). 
Mr. Frazar did not meet with any form of the Vesper Sparrow in Lower 
California, but Mr. Belding gives confinis as “rare” in his list of birds found 
in the “‘vicinity of La Paz and southward” in the winter of 1882-83. To 
this Mr. Bryant adds, “ Several were shot near La Paz by Mr. Belding in the 
winter. I found them near Pozo Grande and obtained one specimen at Llanos 
de San Julian. Mr. Anthony has noted it as not uncommon on the north- 
west coast.” Mr. Belding asserts that P. g. confinis is a rather common winter 
visitor to California, and that the closely allied P. g. affinis has also been fre- 
quently taken there at the same season. 
Mr. Grinnell mentions both forms as “common winter’? visitants in his 
List of the Birds of Los Angeles county.2 Mr. Ridgway, however, appar- 
ently regards practically all the birds which inhabit or visit the Pacific coast 
district from Oregon to Cape St. Lucas as affinis, for the only record of confinis 
for this region which he accepts as valid in his latest work* is that by Mr. 
Grinnell as above cited. 
Ammodramus sandwichensis alaudinus (Bonap.). 
WESTERN SAVANNA SPARROW. 
Passerculus sandwichensis alaudinus RipG¢way, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., V. 1883, 533, 
footnote (Cape St. Lucas). Brxpine, Jbid., VI. 1883, 350 (San José del 
Cabo). Riveway, Jdid. (crit.). 
Ammodramus sandwichensis alaudinus Bryant, Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci., 2d ser., IL. 
1889, 298, 299 (Cape St. Lucas; Cape Region). 
A. s. alaudinus, like some of the other forms of the group to which it be- 
longs, might be not inaptly termed a composite subspecies. In other words, 
it includes several well-marked but unnamed races which differ quite as much 
from one another and from the typical bird as does the latter from its nearest 
1 Zoe, IV. 1898, 240. 
* Occ. Papers Calif. Acad. Sci., II., Land Birds Pacif. District, 1890, 140-142. 
8 Pub. II., Pasadena Acad. Sci., 1898, 36. 
4 Birds N. and Midd. Amer., pt. I. 1901, 184-187. 
