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 7 2 THE CONDOR [ Vol. III ing about I speculated concerning the possible rarity of the nest and after a ludi- crously hard climb was rewarded with a set of three eggs of this sparrow. There- after I sought easier nests, preferably those four or five feet up in cedar and pine saplings. Nesting dates for Fyffe are as follows: June o, 897, nest and four young in a low bush one foot from ground; June o, 898, four incubated eggs, nst in a small cedar three feet up, the eggs marked with brown; June t5, four fresh eggs, nest seven feet up in pine sapling beside road; June 6, 9o, nest with full fledged young in cedar sapling four feet up; june 7, nest and four fresh eggs three feet up in manzanita bush; June 7, nest and four fresh eggs ten feet up on drooping limb of black oak. Spizella breweri. Brewer Sparrow. Several shot in the sage-brush near Meyer's Station by Wilfred H. Osgood in June, t896. This region seems well adapted to the species. Junco byemalls thurberi. Thurber Junco. A common summer resident from 3,0o0 feet altitude to the summit. At Fyffe the species is not common, but increases in numbers as we ascend. There is the usual variation in its nesting dates, young and fresh eggs being often found at the same time in one locality. On June t7, t896 I found a nest at Fyffe, containing half-grown young, the nest being concealed in the "mountain misery." Mr. Taylor found a nest in May, 896 built in a depression in the side of an irrigating ditch, the nest and its sur- roundings being composed entirely of pine needles. On June 2, 897 Mr. Carri- ger collected a nest and four fresh eggs at Fyffe, the nest being hidden among some brakes in the forest. June t, 898 young in the streaked plumage were shot at Fyffe. On June o, 9oo a nest was found at about 3,000 feet. built in the pine needles on abank, and contained four young. During the latter part of May of the present year Mr. Taylor found a nest at Fyffe, situated in a dense growth of brakes, containing fresh eggs. On June 4 while walking along the road near the summit a junco flushed from beneath my feet and a nest was fom:d built in the side of a shallow ditch and concealed effectually by a tiny tamarack. It held four fresh eggs. The birds always exhibit alarm when their nesting do- nminis invaded and if the female be carefully watched the nest may be usually located within a short time. Melospiza meloclia montana. Mountain Song Sparro w. [I have seen asong sparrow several times about Lake Tahoe, especially in the marshy tracts near Tallac, but none have been taken. In July 898 a song sparrow which I took to be this form was shot at Lily Lak in Glen Alpine. The specimen unfortunately was destroyed. A nest containing four eggs taken with this specimen, was built among ferns under a fallen aspen. The nest was of usual Melospiza formation, and the eggs are not different from those of zV/. m. heermanni.--W. W. P.] lIelospiza lincolni. Lincoln Sparrow. [Two specimens were taken at my camp on Silver Creek in Sept. 896. They were probably migrants.--W. W. P.] Passerella iliaca unalaschcensis. Townsend Fox Sparrow. [Si x or eight sparrows of this form were taken on Silver Creek, within three miles of Pyramid Peak in Sept x896. One specimen was very light colored and referable to the fox sparrow, rather than to : i. un.laschcensis.--W. W. P.] Passerella iliaca megarhyp_.cha. Thick-billed Sparrow. A common resident and sweet singer of the region, as abundant at Fyffe apparently as it is at higher altitudes. It is partial to the large tracts grown up to deer brush where, in the shade, it seeks seclusion, scratching for its food on the ground and only now and