The Sage Sparrow (Amphispiza belli) is a rare vagrant on the floor of California’s Central Valley north of Fresno County. The few sight records are augmented by specimens from the Central Valley catalogued as three subspecies in the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology (MVZ) at the University of California, Berkeley: Bell’s Sage Sparrow (A. b. belli) and two interior forms, A. b. canescens (breeding in the southern Central Valley and Mojave Desert) and A. b. nevadensis (breeding in the Great Basin). However, we follow Patten and Unitt’s (2002) revision of the subspecies by regarding canescens as a synonym of nevadensis, here referred to as Interior Sage Sparrow. Although the specimens have been identified to subspecies, some sight records have not. Of the 37 records we have located for the Central Valley north of Fresno County, seven were not identified to subspecies. We echo Tim Manolis’s appeal (editor’s note in Stovall 1998) that birders should photograph and/or identify each extralimital Sage Sparrow to subspecies in order to clarify the status of each in the Central Valley and elsewhere. In this paper we summarize the records and provide tips to encourage and facilitate identification of these two distinctive subspecies.