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fornia, Monterey County north to Oregon; Oregon west of Cascade Range, including east 
slope of Cascades Cyanocitta stel/eri carhonacea Grinnell. 
dd. Whole bird paler; back mouse gray; frontal spots conspicuous and extended often 
tinging whole of relatively long crest; wings and tail lighter; grays with decided brown- 
ish cast. Sierra Nevada, from mountains at head of Sacramento Valley, Lassen Peak and 
northern Lassen Co.; interior-most coast ranges, and mountains of southern California 
and northern Lower California. Cyanocitla stelleri frontalis Ridgway, 
aa. White spot over eye; frontal streaks whitish. 
b. White spot often small and inconspicuous; back slate, often with bluish tinge; breast and 
abdomen dark China blue; darkest on chest. Interior, British Columbia and northern 
Rocky Mt. region; Montana, Idaho, eastern Washington, eastern Oregon, south to Wasatch 
Mts. Cyanocitta stelleri annectens (Baird.) 
bb. White spot very conspicuous; white frontal streaks conspicuous, shading off to bluish; 
back drab gray or mouse gray; head abruptly black; abdomen pale cerulean blue. Southern 
Rock}- Mt. region from southern Wyoming to northern Mexico, west to Uintah Mts., Utah 
and high mountains of Arizona. Cyanocitta stelleri diadeniata (Bonaparte). 
The following localities have yielded typical stelleri. A.lask.\; Yakutat 4, 
Seldovia 4, Port Graham, 4, Security i, Prince William Sound i. Virgin Bay 
I, Howkan 2, "Russian America” 2, Sitka 18; British Columbi.v; New West- 
minister I, Fort Simpson 2, Promise Island i, Hastings 1, Lund t, Clinton 
(migrant?) 1, Vancouver Id. ii; total 55. 
Cya/iocitta stelleri carhonacea \isls heen found at the follow- 
biST OF localities. ing localities: Oregon; Wilson R., Tillamook Co. i, Tilla- 
mook I, Columbia R. 2, Beaverton 2, Salem 2, Oak Grove i 
(and I intermediate with annectens), Fort Klamath 8 (and i specimen close to an- 
nectens, migrant?). California; Pacific Grove, Monterey Co. 2, Monterey 2, Santa 
Cruz 3, Palo Alto 4, Santa Cruz Mts. 2, San Francisco i, Marin County i, Nicasio 
I, Humboldt Bay 3, Weaverville i, Bully Choop .Mts., Trinity Co. i (intermediate 
with frontalis), Carberry, Shasta Co. i (intermediate), Mt. Shasta i (not typical). 
Camp Bidwell i (? young): total 41. The following localities have yielded inter- 
mediates between stelleri and carhonacea, close to stelleri. British Columbia: .Ag- 
assiz I (individual), Victoria i (individual); W.vshi.ngto.n: Marcus i. Ft. Steilacoom 
I, Seattle i, Puyallup i, Neah Bay 6; total 12. 
I have examined specimens of Cyanocitta stelleri frontalis from the following 
localities. Nevad.v: Carson (type loc.). California: Baird, Sliasta Co., Ft. 
Crook (not typical). Honey Lake, Big Trees, Mt. Whitney, Sequoia National 
Park, South Fork of Merced, Kernville, Walker Basin, Kern Lakes, Tejon Mts., 
Laguna San Diego Co., Pine Valley San Diego Co., Ventura Co. (intermediate 
with carhonacea but closer to frontalis), T^os .\lamos Santa Barbara Co. (intermed- 
iate, rather nearer frontalis), Mt. St. Helena. Lower California: Vallecitas, 
Valle Palmas, Guadalupe Canyon. 
The Monterey Fox Sparrow. 
BY JOSEPH ORINNELL. 
D uring two summers I have spent in the vicinity of Monterey special search 
has failed to rev’-eal the presence of any form of Passerella. Transition and 
Boreal species a plenty throughout the breeding season render this region 
abruptly distinct from the surrounding Sonoran fauna. But the fox sparrow is 
conspicuous by its absence from the ranks of those northern coast species here 
present and with which it is wont to be found elsewhere. In this “Santa Cruz 
Faunal Area” we find siskins, Cyanocittas, hermit thrushes, winter wrens, j uncos 
and others of the same category, all of which nest in this limited region. So I had 
expected to find Passerella, but for some reason Passerella has not found here a 
congenial breeding home. 
But in winter, when birds drop from zone to zone, fox sparrows are spread 
