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THE CONDOR 
Vol. XIV 
believe was raised on the spot where it was taken, being one of a small flock I 
saw while out deer hunting about the beginning of September. These late sum- 
mer birds were, in my opinion, a family whose parents had been crippled by 
either C. A. Allen or myself in the previous winter, and apparently had bred there. 
'Phey were not discovered early enough in the season to make this certain, but all 
our other specimens, and all those taken by Allen, were winter specimens, found 
on the range after heavy, cold storms in the mountains, and especially during 
cold, snowy weather in Marin County. We have only nine of these in all, and for 
some reason all are females. 
Xo. 4 in this photograph is a breeding bird from lUue Canyon, Idacer 
County, California, and is true iiiegarhynclia. While the bill of this form is 
larger than any other Passcrclla except stef^hcnsi, it does not make much of a 
Fig. 22. SUMMKR HOME OE STEPHENS FOX SPARROW; NORTH SIDE OF TAHQUITZ 
PEAK, 8500 feet, SAN JACINTO MOUNTAINS, SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA. MOUN- 
TAIN SLOPES, COVERED WITH MANZANITA AND CHINQUAPIN; THE SCATTERED 
TREES ARE LODGE-POLE PINES AND SMALL SILVER FIRS. PHOTO FROM COL- 
LECTION OF UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA MUSEUM OF VERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY. 
showing alongside the latter, and is introduced into the picture to show how 
great the difference is. 
L'p to last summer the range of sfcpliciisi as known was restricted to the 
higher altitudes in the southern parts of the state — San Jacinto, San Bernardino, 
San Ciabriel and Tejon mountains, while some fall specimens have been taken in 
Santa Barbara County. In the latter county iMr. J. H. Bowles thinks they may 
possibly breed, as he secured some specimens early in September on Little Pine 
Alountain. Bnt this date is too late to prove that they breed there. During' this 
last summer, however, Mr. Grinnell came across this form breeding, greatly to his 
surprise, on the west side of the Sierras in Tulare County, his northernmost take 
being not far from the southern boundary of the Sequoia X'ational Park, and in 
