Cogswell 1949 Spizella passerina -1. Big Lagoon, Humboldt Co., Calif. Aug. 10 off - 1 or 2 noted on several days in the alder trees about our camp clearing. Aug. 18 One immature, still with streaked breast, seen in weedy roadside area of 20-50 yards width in area along Maple creek 1 mile from Lagoon. Aug. 20 French Camp, 3100 ft., Humboldt Co., Calif. At the border of the forest (mostly burned & now regrown to tall brush) and the prairie on a SE. facing slope of the ridge ½ mi. S.W. of our camp I collected a handful of this species from 1 of 2 Quercus garryana trees there. Many more of these birds occur over the ridge on a S.W. facing slope. Other Chipping Sparrows were seen in them and at the border of Castanopsis chrysophylla - Lithocarpus densiflorus brush as well, at the last place being in a flock with Juncos & Zonotrichia leucophrys. Aug. 22 "Ball Hills" 2/3 to 2 ½ mi. NW Schoolhouse Park, 2300- 2500 ft., Humboldt Co., Calif. - Estimated 30+ seen in the open grassland area of the Manags & Lyons Ranches. They were in mixed flocks, loosely organized, with Savannah Sparrows, fleeting up from roadsides & fence rows, often far from any shrub or tree. Many were streaked breastnut immatures. Aug. 24-25 - Coyote Peak & vicinity, 2400-3100 ft., Humboldt Co., Calif. - In Sharry Oak woodland & bordering prairies this species was abundant. Many fledg. birds still being fed.