may, 1893] BIRDS OF ME DEATH VALLEY EXPEDITION 101 



breeding, but not commonly, at Independence Creek, June 18-23 and 

 the writer saw several in the high grass at Horse Corral Meadows 

 August 9-13. Mr. Belding found a pair breeding in the meadow at 

 Oroekers, near the Yosemite Valley, in May, and Mr. Bailey saw a few 

 at Monterey, September 28 to October 9. 



Ilccord of specimens collected of Melospiza Uncolni. ' 



Col- 

 lector's 

 No. 



Sex. 



Locality. 



Date. 



Collector. 



Remarks. 



154 

 175 



? 

 9 

 ? 



9 



Panamint Mountains, Calif 



do 



Panamint Valley, Calif. . 



Mar. 27, 1891 

 Apr. 11, 1891 

 Apr. 21, 1891 

 Apr. 22. 1891 

 June 22, 1891 



E. W. Nelson 



A. K. Fisher 



--..do 



....do ;. 



P. Stephens 



Johnson Canon. 

 Do. 



177 

 117 



do 



Sierra Nevada, Calif. . . 



Hot Springs. 

 Do! ° 









Passerella iliaca unalaschcensis. Townsend's Sparrow. 



Townsend's sparrow was not uncommon in Cajon Pass in the San 

 Bernardino Mountains January 2. It was not reported again until Mr 

 Bailey found it common at Monterey, September 28 to October 9. Mr 

 Nelson found it common and generally distributed wherever thickets 

 occurred along the coast from San Simeon to Carpentaria, November 

 4 to December 18. 



Record of specimens collected of Passerella iliaca unalascli 



ecu sis. 



Col- 

 lector's 

 No. 



21 



Sex. 



Locality. 



Cajon Pass, Calif 



Morro, Calif \\ 



Date. 



Jan. 2.1891 



Nov. 8,1891 



Collector. 



A. K. Fisher . 

 E. W. Nelson. 



Eemarks, 



Passerella iliaca megarhyncha. Thick-billed Sparrow. 



The thick-billed sparrow was found commonly iu a number of places 

 m the High Sierra. Mr. Nelson reported it as rather common at the 

 head of Owens Biver, and on the western slope, in July and August. 

 Mr. Stephens saw it among the thickets at Menache Meadows May 

 24-2G; found it common at Independence Creek, where young were 

 taken June 20; and at the lake on Bishop Creek August 4-10. In the 

 Sequoia National Park it was common, and several broods of young 

 just able to fly were seen the first week in August. On the East Fork 

 of the Kaweah Biver Mr. Bailey found it breeding from the lower edge 

 of the conifers up to where Finns monticola grows. It was seen at 

 Horse Corral Meadows, August 9-13; at Whitney Meadows and Soda 

 Springs or Kern Biver Lakes, the last of August; at Mineral King, 

 September 8-11, and on the brushy hillsides about the Caiiada de las 

 Hvas and San Emigdio, October 14-28, 



