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fading, but I am inclined to regard it as analogous to the similar light mark- 

 ings found in Melanerpes angustifrons and certain other Woodpeckers. 



The Ashy Titmouse appears to be strictly confined to the Cape Region, the 

 bird found at San Pedro Martir, in the northern part of the Peninsula, being 

 the closely related P. i. griseus, according to Mr. Bryant, whose failure to de- 

 tect any representative of the inornatus group in the intermediate region makes 

 it nearly certain that the habitat of cineraceus is quite cut off from that of its 

 ally just mentioned. Indeed, its range appears to correspond closely, if not 

 exactly, with that of the St. Lucas Nuthatch. Like the latter, it is a bird of the 

 pine forests which cover portions of the summit and upper slopes of the high 

 mountains near the southern extremity of the Peninsula. Heie, according to 

 Mr. Belding, it is " common from 3,000 feet altitude upward." On the Sierra 

 de la Lagnna Mr. Frazar found it quite as numerous in December as in May 

 and June. None of the specimens killed at the latter season showed any indi- 

 cations of being about to breed, and the eggs, like those of many other birds 

 which inhabit these mountains, are probably not laid much before midsummer. 



Psaltriparus grindae Ridgw. 



Grinda's Bush-Tit. 



\^Psaltriparus\ minimus Coues, Key N. Amer. Birds, 1872, 81, 82, part (Pacif. 

 coast). 



Psaltriparus 7ninimus Codes, Check List, 1873, 11, no. 35, part; 2d ed.. 1882, 29, no. 

 53, part. Ridgwat, Nom. N. Amer. Birds (Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., no. 21), 

 1881, 14, no. 47, part. 



Psaltriparus grindae Kidgwat, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., VI. 1883, 155 (orig. descr. ; 

 type from Laguna), 158, footnote (crit. ; S. Lower Calif.), 347 (measure- 

 ments) ; Proc. BioL Soc. Wash., II. 1884,96 (a correction). Belding, Proc. 

 U. S. Nat. Mus., VI. 1883, 347 (Victoria Mts.). 



Psaltriparus minimus grindae Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., VIII. 1885, 354. 

 A. O. U., Check List, 1886, 337, no. 748 b. Bryant, Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci., 

 2d ser., IL 1889, 317 (San Francisco and Victoria Mts.) ; Zoe, II. 1891, 198 

 (Victoria Mts.). Coues, Key N. Amer. Birds, 4th ed., 1894, 867 (descr. ; 

 Lower Calif.). 



P .\_saltriparus'] minimus grindae Ridgway, Man. N. Amer. Birds, 2d ed., 1896, 565 

 (descr; s. portion of Lower Calif.). 



[Psaltriparus] grindae Dubois, Synop. Avium, fasc. VII. 1901, 466 (Basse-Cali- 

 fornie). 



The characters claimed for this form by Mr. Ridgway are so constantly pre- 

 sented in the large series obtained by Mr. Frazar that I believe the bird to be 

 a good species. The type, taken on February 2, was evidently in nuptial 

 plumage. I can now add descriptions of the juvenal and first winter plumages. 



Juvenal plumage: — (Male, No. 14,822, San Jose del Rancho, July 21, 1887). 

 Differing from the adult in being ashier beneath, with a decided purplish 



