Perching Birds Chiefly Brown or Streaked. 
585. Fox Sparrow (Passerella dliaca). Ly 7.2% 
Back streaked, gray and reddish brown; tail and spots 
below bright reddish brown. Notes. Call, a weak 
tseep; song, loud, sweet, varied, ringing and joyous. 
Range.—Eastern North America; breeds from Magdalen Islands and 
Manitoba, northwest to Alaska; winters from Virginia to the Gulf 
States. 
585a. Shumagin Fox Sparrow (P. 7. wnalaschen- 
sts). Back not distinctly streaked, much paler than 
No. 585; spots below grayish brown; palest of present 
group. 
; Range.—Alaska, Shumagin Islands, and Alaskan Peninsula to Cook 
nlet. 
—Kadiak Fox Sparrow (P. 7. imsularis). Similar 
to No. 585a, but browner above and below; tail nearly 
same as back; breast spots larger. 
Range.— ‘Kadiak Island, Alaska, in summer; in winter south along 
the coast slope to southern California.” (Ridgw.) 
—Sooty Fox Sparrow (P. 12. fuliginosa). Ads. 
Above, including wings and tail, uniform brownish 
umber, wustreaked; below heavily spotted with same. 
Range.—Coast of British Columbia and northwest Washington; 
south in winter to San Francisco, California. (Ridgw.) 
—Townsend Fox Sparrow (P. 7. townsendi). Sim- 
ilar to fuligznosa but more rufous. 
Range. Southern Alaska north to Cross Sound; south In winter to 
northein California. (Ridgw.) 
—Yakutat Fox Sparrow (P. 7. annectens). Similar 
to townsend: but less rufous; very near fuliginosa, but 
not quite so deeply colored. 
Range.—Coast of Alaska, from Cross Sound to Prince William 
Sound (to Cook Inlet?); in winter, south to California. (Ridgw.) 
585b. Thick-billed Sparrow (P. 7. megarhyncha). 
L. 7.33 W. 3.3; depth of B. at base, .4. ds. Above 
and spots below gray; wings and tail light brown; 
bill large. Notes. Song, resembles that of No. 585, 
but is recognizably different. 
Range.—Breeding in the Slerra Nevada (both slopes) from Mt. 
Shasta southward; in winter beyond Sierras as far as Los Angeles 
County, California. (Ridgw.) it 
585c. Slate-colored Sparrow (P. 7. schistacea). Whe seb Z 
Similar to No. 585b, but smaller, bill smaller; W. 3.2; Ay ii 4 / Vg 
depth of B. at base, .35. Ye 
Range. —Rocky Mountain district of United States and British Co- 
lumbia; breeds from more eastern ranges of Colorado west to White 
Mountainsin southeastern Colorado, mountains of northeastern Cal- 
{fornia and eastern Oregon; north tointerior of British Columbia; in 
migrations, New Mexico, Arizuna, western slopes of Sierra Nevada, 
western Kansas. (Ridgw.) 
585d. Stephens Sparrow (P. 2. stephensi). Similar 
in coloration to No. 585b, but larger, the bill conspicu- 
ously so; W. 3.4; depth of B. at base .6. (Ridgw.) 
Range.—Breeding on San Bernardino and San Jacinto Mountains; 
southern California. (Ridgw.) 
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