On one of the recent CBCs, I was looking at the Fox Sparrows with regard
to the various sub-species. I was also wondering if the proposed splits
have been made by the AOU.

The birds I saw were most like the drawings of the Slate-colored Fox
Sparrow drawing 40a and somehat like drawing 39c of the Sooty Fox
Sparrow in the Sparrows of United States and Canada. That book shows
just the Sooty Fox Sparrow and Red Fox Sparrow as being in western
Washington in the winter.

I saw very dark Sooty Fox Sparrow in the Queen Charlotte Islands this
fall and the local birds I've seen definitely look more like the
Slate-colored Fox Sparrow.

Does anyone have any comments on what the species/sub species of Fox
Sparrows is in Washington?