Jon. Anderson wrote:
>In 1899, Ridgway separated the California resident "Nuttall's"
white-crowned sparrow from the Gambel's race. In 1928,
Grinnell described "pugetensis" from a specimen at Parksville,
Vancouver Island, BC as the breeding race from SW British
Columbia, and south, west of the Cascade Range in
Washington and Oregon to northwestern California.

Finally, in 1932, Oberholser described the Mountain White
-crowned Sparrow - "oriantha" from a specimen taken at
6400 feet at Barley Camp in the Warner Mountains, 14 miles
SW of Adel, Oregon.

The Gambel's white-crowned sparrow is the nesting bird
from up in Alaska, as well as down through interior BC.
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Yes, thanks for sorting that out for me, Jon.

Chris Maack
CMaack at compuserve.com