gg NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



roiuuling the Volcano in the soiitliern mines, and subsequently met with 

 them on the summit of the Tejon Pass. He tlnuks their notes and habits 

 very similar to those of the atricapillus. Dr. Suckley obtained a single 

 specimen at Fort Dalles, but regarded it as extremely rare in that locality. 



Dr. Woodhouse found it quite alnmdant 

 in tlie San Francisco Mountains of New 

 Mexico, where it was feeding among the 

 tall pines in company with kindred 

 species. 



Mr. Eidgway found this species in 

 great abundance among the pines on 

 the eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada 

 Mountains, as well as in all the exten- 

 sive cedar-groves on the mountains to 

 Parus lonmnus. ^he eastward. Around Carson City this 



species was found throughout the win- 

 ter. In its manners and notes, particularly the latter, it was hardly distin- 

 guisliable from P. caroiiwcnsis. The notes are described as louder and more 

 distinct, though their calls in spring are rather less clearly articulated. 



Parus atricapillus, Lixn. 



EASTERN CHICKADEE; BLACK-CAPPED TITMOUSE. 



Parus atricapillits, Linn. Syst. Nat. I, 1766, 341 (based on Parus atricapillus canadensis, 

 BitissoN, III, 553, tab. xxix, fig. 1). — Baiud, Birds N. Am. 1858, 390; Review, 80. 

 — ScLATER, Catal. 1861, 13, no. 80. — Dall & Bannister (Alaska). — Samukls, 182. 

 Paxilc alricapilla, Bon. Consp. 1850, 230. Parus paluslris, Nutt. Man. I, 1832, 79. 



Figured by Ai-ni-BON, Wilson, etc. 



Sp. Ciiah. Second quill .is long: as the .secondaries. Tail very .'lisrbtly rouiidi'd : lateral 

 feathers al)0ut .10 shorter than middle. Bai-k brownish-ashy. Top ol' head and throat 

 black, sides of head between them white. Beneath whitish; brownish-white on the .sides. 

 Sides of outer tail-feathers, some of primaries, and secondaries conspicuously margined 

 with white. Length, 5.00; wing, 2.50; tail, 2.50. 



IIab. Eastern North America, north of 39th parallel. 



In this species the first ({uill is spurious ; tlie fourth quill is longest ; the 

 fifth and sixth successively a little shorter ; the third is about equal to, or a 

 little shorter than, the eighth ; the second is a very little longer than tlie 

 secondaries. The tail is a little rounded, tlie innermost feather longest, tlie 

 rest successively a little shorter. The greatest difference in length of tail- 

 feathers amounts to ..30 of an incli. 



Tlie entire crown, from the bill to the upper part of the back, coming 

 down on tlie sides to the lower level of the eye, is pure black, altlmiigli the 

 edge alone of the lower eyelid is of this color. A second Ijlack patch begins 



