The Western Chipping Sparrow 



WESTERN CHIPPING 

 SPARROWS 



Also found attendant upon culture in valleys, even in Lower Sonoran. Occurs reg- 

 ularly upon the timbered islands of the Santa Barbara group. Winters sparingly 

 in the San Diego district. 



Authorities. — Heermann (Emberiza socialis), Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., ser. 

 2, ii., 1853, p. 265; Cooper, J. G., Orn. Calif., 1870, pp. 207-208 (habits); Belding, 

 Occ. Papers, Calif. Acad. Sci., 2, 1890, pp. 155-156 (migration); Judd, Biol. Surv. Bull., 

 no. 15, 1901, pp. 76-78 (part) (food) ; Beal, Biol. Surv. Bull., no. 34, 1910, pp. 80-82 

 (food); Howell, Pac. Coast Avifauna, no. 12, 1917, p. 78 (on coastal islands). 



AN OBSCURE little fellow he is to eye, a skit done in faded browns, 

 with a chestnut crown which still does not differentiate the owner from 

 a withered flower-cluster of wintry creosote, nor from a fallen fir cone on 

 the flanks of Shasta. We used to call him domestica, and rejoiced to think 



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