BREWSTER: BIRDS OF THE CAPE REGION, LOWER CALIFORNIA. 145 
Valley, Alaska. In the Sierra Madre Mountains of Mexico it breeds as far 
south as Pinos Altos, whence I have typical specimens, taken in June, None 
of my collectors have found it on the west coast of Mexico. 
Spizella pallida (Swarns.). 
CLAY-COLORED SPARROW. 
Spizella pallida Betpixe, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., V. 1883, 540 (San José and 
elsewhere in Cape Region). Bryant, Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci., 2d ser., II. 
1889, 801 (Cape Region). 
This is a common winter resident in the Cape Region, whence it was first 
reported by Mr. Belding. Mr. Frazar found it numerous at San José del 
‘abo (where his first specimen was shot on October 14) and at Triunfo (in 
December). He also took it at Santiago, but it is not included in his lists of 
birds seen at La Paz and on the Sierra de la Laguna. Mr. Bryant notes it as 
common on Santa Margarita Island and northward on the Peninsula, pre- 
sumably in autumn, winter, or spring, for there is no reason to suppose that 
it breeds as far south as even the northern part of Lower California. 
Dr. Cooper has recorded S. pallida as “ common in April” at Fort Mojave,} 
but no one else seems to have found it in California. It breeds in the interior 
of North America and migrates as far southward as Oaxaca in southern 
Mexico. 
Spizella breweri Cass. 
BREWER’S SPARROW. 
Spizella breweri Betpine, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., V. 1883, 540 (Cape Region). 
Bryant, Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci., 2d ser., II. 1889, 8301 (Cape Region). 
Mr. Belding considers Brewer’s Sparrow “ abundant,” but Mr. Frazar did 
not find it at all common, and his collection contains only five specimens as 
against thirty-nine of pallida, He saw it at La Paz, Triunfo, and San José 
. del Cabo, as well as on Carmen Island. Mr. Bryant mentions only one ex- 
ample, which he shot ‘at San Julio (near Comondu),” and which he considers 
“ intermediate between this species and S. pallida.” S. brewert is, of course, 
only a winter visitor to the Cape Region. Mr. Frazar’s latest spring date is 
April 20. 
North of San Diego, in California, Brewer's Sparrow is seldom seen near 
the coast, but east of the Sierras it is of regular and frequent occurrence at its 
seasons of migration. Mr. Grinnell states that it is ‘* tolerably common in 
summer from 5,000 to 7,000 feet on the brushy mountain sides between Pine 
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