PAUID^ — THE TITMICE. 



95 



Silk's (liii'k nisl.y-browii. AViiijr, 2A!> ; tail, 2.45; tar.iii.s, .02; miiliUc 



toe, .35; griuliiatidii of tail, ..'iO. (17,H>1, IIalifa.\, N. S.) /f<th. Arctic 



Amorica; .■ioulli to iioi'tlu'ru lioumlary of the United States (e.xeept to 



westward). 



7. P. sibiricus.' Sid(^ ol' ueek white. Baelc, etc., rusty ochracuous- 



firay. .Sides nisty oehraccous. Wing, 2.70; tail, 2.80; tarsus, .00; 



ndddle toe, .30; graduation of lail, .iin. I/nl). Europe. 



Parus montanus, Gamt!ki,. 



MOUNTAIN CHICKADEE: WHITE-BROWED CHICKADEE. 



Parus mmUaviis, (Iamuki,, I'r. A. N. S. I'lula. April, l.Sl:i, 'i.";!) ; .lourn. A. N. Sc. '2d 

 Soric's, I, 1847, «.''), pi. viii, I'. 1. -Baiud, 15. N. A. IS.'iS, 394; Keviow Am. IJ. 1, 1804, 

 8'2. — Ki.i.ior, llhist. — Coopnit, IHrdsCul. I, 4(i. 



Sp. Ciiau. Head ami neck above, with under part of head and throat, glossy black ; 

 forehead, stripe above the cyo and band below it, involving the auriculars, whit(\ These 

 stripes endjracing between them a black band through the eye and coiilliiciit with I lii^ lilack 

 of tlie head. Above ashy; beneath similar, but paler; the upper part ollircast ami uiiddlo 

 line of belly white. Length about 5 inches; wing, 2.00; tail, 2.40. 



IIai!. Mountain region of Middle .■\ml Western Uniteil States. 



IlAniTS. Tlio Moiiiiiaiu Cliickadci^ was first met witli hy Dr. Oanibcl in 

 jciiiniuyiiii;- westward from Santa I'Y', in New Mexico, and I'rom tlience was 

 I'lMiiiil in all the rano'os id' the Rocky 

 M(uintains nearly to California. Its 

 notes anil habits are said to closely 

 resemble those of the common Chick- 

 adee, bnt weaker and more varied. It 

 keeps more in low luislics, where it 

 moves from Inandi to lnanrli with 

 iintirinj,' activity, searclnnu each nii- 

 ntttely for small insects. It also i're- 

 quently descends ti) llie oi-mnid to 

 ]iick u|i small seeds. W'liile (liiis oc- 

 cu]iied it will occasionally slop, look 

 round, and, ntteriiiir a. slender /('-^/('-(A-, and I lien its usual mA^i, to-dc-ik-dait, 

 will lly to auiithel- hush. 



On tiu^ Rio Colorado they kept childly among the cotton-wood trees that 

 grew along its hanks, and its fannliar notes were almost the oidy sounds 

 heard. They were observed in large and busy Hocks along the smaller 

 streams in comjiany with the Least Tit and the Re.guH. Dr. Gand^el did 

 not find them, however, so abundant on the California sid(>s of the ridge, 

 where other sjiecies took their ]ilace. 



1 M-. Ilcerniaim found this Tit l^(Hl^e abundant among the mountains sur- 



1 Parus sibh-km, Gmki.. S. N. 17S8, p. 1013. 



nrtipilUts. 



