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Show 242 63. Zonotrichia gambeli, ( Forst.).- Gambel's Finch. The true Gambel's Finch is confined to the Pacific province, where it breeds as far to the north as Kodiak. I was unable to detect its presence in the mountains about Fort Tejon in summer, and I am inclined to believe that it does not breed in the sierras south at least of the latitude of San Francisco. Among a large number of the preceding birds, shot near Mount Whitney in September, were only two of this variety. About San Francisco, too, where in November the other variety was so numerous, I succeeded in finding but a single pair, an adult and a young bird. They are thus probably quite local in their habitat, and resident to a great extent, though in their wanderings for food they extend some distance farther south in the fall and winter than their regular habitat. No. 485 486 Sex. 9 ad. $ jun. Locality. Near Mount Whitney, Cal do . Date. Sept 19 Sept 19 Collector. H. W. Tfan* haw'. Do. 64. Zonotrichia coronata, Pallas.- Golden- crowned Sparrow. Emberixa coronata, Pallas Zoog. Boaso- Aaiat, ii, 1811, 44. Zonotrichia coronata, Bd., B. N. A., 1858, 461.- Xantua, Proo. Phila. Acad. Nat 8ci., 1859,191- Coop. & Buokl., P. R. E. Rep., vol. 12, pt. ii, I860, 201.- Coop., B. CaL, i, 1870, 197.- B., B., & R., N. A. B., ii, 1874, 573.- Neleon, Proo. Boat Soc Nat Hist, voL xvii, 359 ( California). Zonotrichia aurocapiUa, Newb., P. R. K. BepM vi, 1857, 88. In its fall migration, this Sparrow appears to follow pretty exclusively the mountain-ranges, where it is found from their bases up to an altitude of about 6,000 or 7,000 feet, thus avoiding the higher summits and not descending into the valleys. It is a brush-loving species, and inhabits the thickest chaparral of oak- scrub or " blue brush," sometimes in flocks of its own kind, oftener in company with the other Zonotrichia and the PipUos. Its habits differ in no noteworthy respect from those of its congeners. Its food, which in the fall consists almost entirely of the seeds of grasses and weeds, is obtained from the ground, the various species mingling together in perfect araitv as they conduct their search. By the 10th of November most of the young birds had passed north, those remaining being for the most part in the adult plumage. Later in the fall and in winter their diffusion becomes more general. In company with the var. intermedia, they were seen in the hedge- rows and weed- patches about Oakland, where they spend the winter. Probably more or less remain in the mountains of Northern California during the summer., Heerman, as quoted, mentions finding a nest of this species near Sacramento. * , 564 56P 668 609 611 561 565 566 565 603 604 567 60f> 607 608 715 540 610 6IR 614 619 613 615 616 617 569 619 695 696 737 Sex. 9 ad. d ad. d'ad. d ad. d jun. d Jan. 9 jun. d'Jun. 9 Jan. ? J ™ * C JU2L x 3u n' 9 Jan. d J an. 9 Jun. 9 Jan. d'Jun. 9 Jan. cT Jan. 9 Jan. d Jan. d Jan. 9 Jun. d Jan. d Jan. rfjan. d Jan. d'Jun. Jun. Locality. Mountains near Kernville, Cal. do Walker's Basin, Cal Mountains near Kernville, Cal. do do do do do do .-.. do do do do do Near Whitney, Cal Mountains near Kernville, Cal. . . . . . . d o . . . . . . . do do . . do do do . . . . . . . do do do Walker's Baain. Cal . Moon tains near Kernville, Cal. Date. Oct. 16 Oct. 16 Nov. 9 Oct 25 Oct 25 Oct 10 Oct 16 Oct 16 Oct 10 Oct 25 Oct 25 Oct 16 Oct 25 Oct 25 Oct 25 Nov. 11 Oct 10 Oct 25 Oct 25 Oct 25 Oct 25 Oct 25 Oct 25 Oct 25 Oct 25 Oct 16 Oet 25 Nov. 11 Nov. 10 Oct 25 Collector. H. W. Henshaw. .... do .... do .... do .... do .... do .... do . . . . do do do do Wing. 3.30 3.28 3.20 3.32 3.08 3.26 3.22 3.15 2.93 3.07 3.14 Tail. 3.37 3.45 a 48 3.63 3.17 3.40 3.37 3.25 3.05 3.25 3.33 Bill 0.47 0.50 0.50 0.46 0.47 0.45 0.50 0.45 0.48 0.49 0.48 Tarsus. 0.95 a 88 0.95 0.92 0.93 0.97 LOO 0.93 0.90 0.93 a 95 |