.- Fox Sparrows (Passerella i. iliaca), so far as I know, have not been banded thus far on their nesting- grounds. There are, however, two available records of two birds of this race, one banded while in migration to its summering-grounds in the ß .Worth, and the other while on its wintering-grounds in the South. F.C. Lincoln (see Technical Bulletin No. 32 of the United States Department of Agriculture, p. 73) records one of this race banded at Demarest, New Jersey, No. 47587, April 2, 1924, and recovered January 26, 1926, at Pinetown, North. Carolina. In the meantime it had made five complete migrations, three to its wintering-grounds and two to its summering (nesting). grounds. .' A more recent recovery is that of Fox Sparrow 694523, 'banded by R. R. Marsden of Hanover, New Hampshire, April 5, 1929, and found dead strangely enough at the same place, Pinetown, North Carolina, by C. Keetch. January 20, 1931. Lincoln (loc. cit.), however, records one return Fox Sparrow from Cedar I-Iill, British Columbia, eleven from Berkeley, California, and one from Los Angeles, California. None of these thirteen birds was taken on its nesting-grounds, so that from the published records we do not know whether the Fox Sparrows were of one or several recognized sub-species, seven of which nest in California according to Swarth , or were some of  "Revision o the Avian Genus Passerella with Special Reference to the Distribution and Migration of the Races in California," by H. S. Swarth, University of California Pub- lications in ZoOlogy, Vol. 2, No. 4, Sept. 11, 1920. the nine additional races nesting north of California. As all but three of th.e Passerella returns reported by Lincoln were made at Berkeley, these were doubtless returns to wintering quarters. Swarth (loc. tit.) says (p. 112) that only by extensive collecting of wintering Passerella can the wintering homes of the California races be definitely determined. In place of collecting, well-ordered stations for trapping and banding of the birds will assist in securing the desired data as well as additional scientific information relating to Passerella and other species without the attendant sacrifice of bird-life of the collecting method.