A New Record for California
Journal
Condor
Volume
19
Issue
2 (March-April)
Year
1917
Pages
68
Section
From Field and Study
Online Text
A New Record for California
On December 4, 1910, I secured a male specimen of the Savannah Sparrow (Passerculus sandwichensis savanna). The bird when shot was clinging to some dry grass stalks growing in a swampy meadow enclosed by dikes. This field, formerly open salt marsh, is near the north end of Woodley Island, Humboldt Bay, California.
Mr. J. Grinnell examined this sparrow in 1911 or 1912, and again in the fall of this year, 1916, pronouncing it to be Passerculus s. savanna. Mr. Grinnell wrote to me that, as far as he was aware, the Savannah Sparrow constitutes a new subspecies for the state.
C. I. Clay
California, December 25, 1916
