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through the farming country about Stockton. I first 

 noticed them at Sacramento, Marysville and Gridley in 

 tiie spring of 1888. They nest early and often in Cali- 

 fornia, beginning to breed early in March in the interior 

 of the State.— L. B. 



190. Passerella iliaca (Merr.) Fox Sparrow. 



[A male taken near San Diego, January 3, 1888, by 

 A. M. Ingersoll. See Proc. Cal. Acad., ser. 2, ii, 90. — 

 W. E. B.] 



191. Passerella iliaca unalaschcensis (Gmel.) Town- 

 send's Sparrow. 



British Columbia. John Fannin. — Common summer 

 resident. 



Washington Territory. Cooper, 1860. Only a winter 

 resident. Most common in the interior, but in very 

 cold weather seeks the coast. 



Willamette Valley. 0. B. Johnson. — Only a winter 

 visitor. 



Sebastopol. F. H. Holmes.— Tolerably common win- 

 ter visitant; first seen September 24, 1884. 



Gridley. L. B.— September 25, 1884, first; Big Trees, 

 September 25, 1880; Summit, September 28, 1885, a 

 dozen. These are my only dates of arrival from the 

 north. I saw it up to March 15, 1884, at San Diego. 

 It is a rare winter visitant to the low parts of Califor- 

 nia, but then more common in the foothills. 



Berkeley. T. S. Palmer. — Common winter resident. 

 Last seen February 14, 1886. 



Alameda and Contra Costa counties. W. E. Bryant. 

 Tolerably common winter visitant; 



Henshaw, 1876. Early in October the mountains in 

 the vicinity of Mt. Whitney began to be thronged with 

 these birds. 



