243 
65. Junco oregonus , (Towns.).—Oregon Snowbird. 
This Snowbird is probably a summer resident in the high mountains throughout 
California. 
As late as August 19 I obtained the young fully fledged, though still retaining their 
nest plumage, in the lhountains near Fort Tejon, where the species was very abundant. 
In September the number in the State is increased by the arrival of immense flocks 
from the north, when they overspread the whole country, remaining till the following 
spring. 
No. 
274 
275 
407 
452 
504 
544 
547 
548 
556 
650 
Sex. 
cf jun. 
9 ad. 
9 jun. 
cf ad. 
Locality. 
Date. 
Mountains near Fort Tejon,iCal. 
Aug. 2 
Aug. 2 
.do... 
.do . 
Ang. 19 
Mountains near Mount Whitney, Cal... 
Sept. 10 
Sept. 26 
Oct. 10 
.do. 
.do. 
.do... 
Oct. 10 
.do. 
Oct. 10 
.do. 
Oct. 10 
.do. 
Nov. 5 
Collector. 
H TV. Hensliaw. 
Do. 
Do. 
Do. 
Do. 
Do. 
Do. 
Do. 
Do. 
Do. 
66. Poospiza belli, (Cassin).—Bell’s Sparrow. 
Emberiza belli , Cassin, Pr. A. N. Sc. Phila., v, Oct., 1850,104, pi. iv, 41 (San Diego, Cal.). 
Poospiza belli, Bd., B. N. A.,1858, 470.—Kennerly, P. Ii. R. Iiep., x, 1859, 29.—Heerman, ibid., 46.— 
Coop., B. Cal., i, 1810, 204. 
The Bell’s Finch appears to be confined to the southern half of California, where it is 
a resident species. It inhabits to some extent the chaparral on the mountain-sides, 
but is more particularly a bird of the sage-brush plains, no spot being too desolate to 
suit the taste of this Sparrow. In the mountains near Fort Tejon, it breeds abundantly 
at an elevation of 5,000 or 6,000 feet. At this date, August 4, the young were just 
moulting and about to don the adult feathering. 
No. 
Sex. 
Locality. 
Date. 
295 
296 
: 297 
369 
378 
390 
> 391 
392 
749 
9 jun. 
cf jun. 
cf jun. 
d jun. 
cf jun. 
cf ad. 
9 
9 ad. 
Mountains near Fort Tejon, Cal 
.do. 
Aug. 4 
Aug. 4 
Aug. 4 
Aug. 17 
Aug. 7 
Aug. 17 
Aug. 18 
Aug. 18 
.do. 
.do. 
.do. 
.do. 
.do. 
.do. 
.do. 
Collector. 
TVing. 
Tail. 
Bill. 
Tarsus. 
H. TV. Hensliaw. 
2. 72 
2. 96 
0. 44 
0. 80 
_do. 
2. 74 
2. 88 
0. 38 
0. 81 
_do. 
2. 82 
2. 87 
0.38 
0. 82 
_do. 
2. 75 
2. 91 
0. 37 
0. 80 
_do. 
2. 80 
2. 89 
0. 39 
0. 83 
_do. 
2. 75 
2. 88 
0. 37 
0. 81 
_do. 
2. 65 
2. 82 
0. 39 
0. 77 
-do. 
2. 63 
2. 75 
0. 35 
0. 74 
2. 79 
2. 95 
0.43 
0. 79 
67. Poospiza belli, (Cassin), var. navadensis, Ridgw.—Artemisia Sparrow. 
This well-marked variety of the Bell’s Finch is found throughout the middle region ’ 
being limited in its westward extension by the Sierra Nevada, on the eastern slope of 
which it was found by Mr. Ridgway. 
Though, in the strict meaning of the word, not a migratory species, these Sparrows 
do yet wander in the fall and winter to very considerable distances. As it is of a hardy 
nature, these journeyings are undertaken more in quest of food thau through the exi¬ 
gencies of climate; though, doubtless, both causes are, to some extent, operative. 
It is hence the less surprising that this species should cross the range and be found 
in the winter on the ground occupied in summer by the other variety alone. At Kern- 
ville, I took a single individual, October 28, and saw others. 
No. 
Sex. 
Locality. 
Date. 
Collector. 
TVing. 
Tail. 
Bill. 
Tarsus. 
636 
cf jun. 
Near Kernville, Cal. 
Oct. 28 
H. TV. Hensliaw... 
3.13 
3. 04 
0. 43 
0. 86 
