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Show 243 65. Jutwo 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 mountains 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 Sex. cfjnn. 275 Sad. 407 . $ Jun. 452 1 d & d. 504 : d ad. 544 547 548 556 650 gad. $ ad. tfad. Locality. Moon tains near Port Tojon^ Cal , do do Mountains near Mount Whitney, Cal.. do .. do , do do , do , do Date. Aug. Aug. Aug. 2 * 19 Sept. 10 | Sept. Oct. Oct. Oot. Oet. Nov. 26 10 10 10 10 5 Collector. H W. Henshaw. Do. Do. Do. Do. Do. Do. Do. Do. Do. 66. Pootpita bdU> ( Casein).- Bell's Sparrow. Emberiz* Mi, Casein, Pr. A. N. So. Phila., v, Oct., 1850,104, pi. iv, 41 ( San Diego, Cal.). PoowUa belli, Bd., & N. A., 1858,470.- Kennedy, P. R. R. Rep., x, 1859,29.- Heerman, ibid., 46.- Coop., RCaL, 1,1810, 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 juat moulting and about to don the adult feathering. No. 295 9% W7 T69 378 Sex. 9J un. un. un. un. 390 | tf ad. 391 1 $ 734992 O nil. Locality. Mountains near Fort Tejon, Cal . . . . . . do do do do do do do do Date. Aug. 4 Aug. 4 Aug. 4 Aug. 17 Augs 7 Aug. 17 Aug. 18 Aug. 18 Collector. H. * W. Henshaw. . . . . do .... do do .... do . . . . do . . . . do . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . do .... do " Wing. 2.72 2.74 2.82 2.75 2.80 2.75 2.65 2.63 2.79 Tail. 2.96 2.88 2.87 2.91 2.89 2.88 2.82 2.75 2.95 Bill. a 44 0.38 0.38 0.37 0.39 0.37 0.39 0.35 0.43 Tarsus. 0.80 0.81 0.82 0.80 0.83 0.81 0.77 0.74* 0.79 67. Poosptea 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 than through the exigencies 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. 636 Sex. d Jan. Locality. Near Kernville, Cal Date. Oct. 28 Collector. H. W. Henshaw... Wing. 3.13 Tail. 3.04 Bill. 0.43 Tarsus. 0.86 |