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 66 THE .CONDOR Vol. XIV believe was raised on the pot where it was taken, being one of a slnall flock I saw while out deer hunting about the beginning of September. These late sum- ruer 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. They 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. No. 4 in this photograph is a breeding bird from Blue Canyon, Placer County, California, and is true megarhycha. While the bill of this form is larger than any other Passerella except stephensi, it does not make much of a Fig. 22. SUMMP;R HOME OF STEPHENS FOX SPARROW; NORTH SIDE OF TAHQUITZ PEAK, 8500 FE, 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 UNIVERSIT OF CALIFORNIA MUSEUM OF VERTEBRATE ZOOLOGIZ.. showing' alongside the latter, and is introduced into the picture to show how great the difference is. Up to last summer the range of stetShensi as known was restricted to the higher altitudes in the southern parts of the state--San Jaci'nto, San Bernardino, San Gabriel and Tejon mountains. while some fall specimens have been taken in Santa Barbara County. In the latter county Mr. J. H. Bowles thinks they may possibly breed, as he secured some specimens early in September on Little Pine Mountain. But 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 froln the southern boundary of the Sequoia National Park, and in