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REVIEW OF AMERICAN BIRDS. 



[part I. 



Locality. 



Cape May Co., N J. 

 Washington, D. C. 



Fort Cobb, Ark. 



When 

 Collected. 



Feb, 22, '42 

 .\pril 5, '42, 

 May 1, '59. 



Received from 



J. K. Townsend. 

 W. M. Baird. 



C. Drexler. 

 I D. W. Prentiss. 

 May 20, '60. I J. H. Clark. 



Collected by 



C. S. M'Carthy. 



(607.) 4.25; 6.50. (706.) 4.60; 7.00. (11,971.) 4.80; 7.32. 



Pariis montanus. 



Parus montanus, Gambel, Pr. A. N. Sc. April, 1843, 259 (Santa Fe). — 

 Ib. Jour. A. N. Sc. new ser. I, 1847, 35, pi. viii, fig. 1. — Baird, 

 Birds N. Am. 185S, 394.— Sclatek, Catal. 1861, 14, no. 84. 



Hab. Mountain regions of Middle and Western United States. 



Several variations in coloration and other characters will be found 

 mentioned in the Birds N.'Am., as quoted above, but nothing appa- 

 rently of specific value. 



(22,041.) Iris brown. 



Parus hudsonicus. 



Parus hudsonicus, Forster, Philos. Trans. LXII, 1772, 383, 430.— Attd. 

 Orn. Biog. II, 1834, 543, pi. 194.— Ib. Birds Am. II, 1841, 155, pi. 

 128.— Baird, Birds N. Am. 1858, 395. 



Ilab. Northeastern portions of North. America. 



Specimens from the most northern localities appear larger than 

 those from Maine and Nova Scotia, with proportionally longer tails 

 (3.00 inches, instead of 2.40). I can, however, detect no other 

 difference, although I have access to but a few skins from southern 

 points. This difference is much the same as between P. atricajnlhis 

 and septentrionalis ; to which variety the original P. hudsonicus 



