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THE CONDOR 
Vol. XIV 
some of these specimens collected by C. A. Allen now in the collections of W'il- 
liam Brewster, Outram Bangs. Jonathan Dwight, Jr., and perhaps others. 
Never having seen true, uiegarliyiiclia, the very large bills of the Marin 
County individuals allayed all suspicion on our part as to their being anything 
else, or as to the name not being absolutely appropriate ; and .so sure had we 
been that these were of this form that they were not included in the lot taken 
over to Berkeley for comparison with the Passerclla series in the museum there. 
Eijj. 2n. spr;ciM?:NS of stephkns -\nd thick-billed sp.^rrows: no. 1, 
Pa'sserella stcphensi kro.m the san bernardino mountains; 
NO. 2, /’. siephensi from The southern sierra Nevada; 
NO. 2, stephensi from marin county; no. 4, 
/t i . niegiu'hyncha from placer county 
PHOTO BY JOS. MAILLIARD 
Our specimens from the Sierra Xevadas and foothills we had called 
sc/iisfacea : but on account of the subspecific differences being so entirely rela- 
tive one must have a starting point for comparison, as bald descriptions often 
fail to convey the proper ideas. On making comparison with the University of 
California series we found that while some of our Sierra specimens taken in 
rhe fall or winter were actually schistacca, the breeding birds were iiicgarhyiiclta. 
