order passeriformes. 229 



Family PARIDAE. Titmice, Verdins, and Bush-Tits. 

 Subfamily PARINAE. Titmice. 



Genus PENTHESTES Reichenbach. 



Pcnthestes Reichenbach, Avium Syst. Nat. [plates of generic characters], 

 pi. Ixii, 1850. Type, by orig. desig., Parus lugubris Temminck. 



Penthestes atricapillus atricapillus (Linnaeus). Black-capped Chickadee. 



[735.] 



Parus atricapillus Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 12, I, 1766, 341. Based on 

 Parus atricapillus Canadensis, Le Mesange a teste [ = tete] noire de 

 Canada Brisson, Orn., Ill, 553. (in Canada.) 



Range. — ^Canadian and Transition zones from northern Ontario, central 

 Quebec, and Newfoundland south to southern Missouri, Illinois, northern 

 Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, northern New Jersey, and in the Alleghanies 

 south to North Carolina. Irregularly somewhat farther south in winter.^ 



Penthestes atricapillus septentrionalis (Harris). Long-tailed Chickadee. 



[735a.] 



Parus septentrionalis Harris, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., II, No. 12, 

 Nov.-Dec, 1845 [Feb. 18, 1846], 300. (Yellowstone River, about 30 

 miles "below" [ = above] its junction with the Missouri t= Montana].) 



Range. — Breeds mainly in the Canadian and Transition zones from Kenai 

 Peninsula, Alaska, central Mackenzie, and northern Manitoba south to north- 

 ern New Mexico and eastern Kansas, and from eastern Oregon to western 

 Minnesota and western Iowa. South in wnter to central Texas. 



Penthestes atricapillus occidentalis (Baird). Oregon Chickadee. [7356.] 



Parxis occidentalis Baird, in Baird, Cassin, and Lawrence, Rep. Expl. 

 and Surv. R. R. Pac, IX, 185S, xxxvii, 388, 391. (Northern Pacific 

 Coast of the U. S. [many localities] = Shoalwater Bay, Washington.) 



Range. — Transition Zone of the northwest coast from extreme southwestern 

 British Columbia to extreme northwestern California. 



1 Birds indistinguishable from P. a. atricapillus but obviously intergrades 

 between P. a. septentrionalis and P. a. occidentalis occupy an area in south- 

 western British Columbia, eastern Washington, western Montana, and western 

 Idaho. 



