Perching- Birds Chiefly Gray, Black, or Black and White 



735. Black-capped Chickadee (Pants atricapillus). 

 L. 5.2; T. 2.5. Ads. Cap and throat black; back 

 gray with a brownish tinge; outer margins of wing- 

 coverts grayish white; flanks, cream buff. Notes. Chick- 

 adee-dee, liquid gurgles and chuckling notes and a 

 sweet, clearly whistled, pbe-he or pbe-be-e. 



Range.— Eastern North America; breeds from southern Illinois and 

 Pennsylvania north to Labrador, and south along Alleghanies to 

 North Carolina; migrates a short distance below its southern breed- 

 ing limits. 



735a. Long-tailed Chickadee {P. a. septentrionalis) . 



Similar to No. 735, but tail longer, 2.7, flanks paler, 

 white edgings broader. 



Range. — Rocky Mountain region north to British Columbia; east to 

 Manitoba and the Plains. 



735b. Oregon Chickadee (P. a. Occident alis) . Sim- 

 ilar to No. 735, but much darker; flanks grayish. 



Range. — Pacific coast from northern California to Sitka. 



736. Carolina Chickadee (JParus carolinensis). Sim- 

 ilar to No. 735, but smaller, L. 4.6; T. 2., the greater 

 wing-coverts not margined with whitish. Notes. 

 Whistle "tswee-dee, twsee-dee." 



Range.— Southeastern United States north to middle New Jersey, 

 and southern Illinois; resident from southern New Jersey southward. 



736. a Plumbeous Chickadee [P. c. agilis). Similar 

 to No. 736, but paler above, whiter below. 



Range. — "Eastern and central Texas (Bee, Victoria, Cook, and 

 Concho Counties, etc.") (A. O. U.) 



737. Mexican Chickadee (Parus sclateri) . Simi- 

 lar to No. 735, but sides broadly gray like back, black 

 more extended. Notes. A rapid, vigorous double- 

 noted whistle repeated three times, wholly unlike that 

 of the Chickadee. 



Range. — Mountainous portions of the Mexican tableland north to 

 southern Arizona. 



630. Black-capped Vireo {Vireo atricapillus). 

 4.5. Ad. cf. Crown and cheeks shining black; 



L. 



lores 



and eye-ring white; back olive-green; below white, 

 sides tinged with greenish yellow; two whitish wing- 

 bars. Ad. 9. Similar, but black of head duller. 

 Yng. "Top and sides of head dull grayish brown; 

 lores, orbital ring and lower parts dull huffy white or 

 palebuffy." (Ridgw.) Notes. "Of the general char- 

 acter of the White-eye or bellii type." (Bailey.) 



Range.— Breeds in central and western Texas; north to southern 

 Kansas; winters in southern Mexico. 



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