BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 411 



J'lanin] (J'liecile) (jambeJi Hkllmayk, Tierreich, 18 Lief., Mairh, 1903, 51. 

 PariiK gambeli tliai/eri Birtwell, Auk, xviii, April, 1901, 166 (near Albuquerque, 

 New Mexico; c-oll. F. J. Birtwell)." 



PENTHESTES CINCTUS ALASCENSIS ( Prazak) . 

 ALASKAN CHICKADEE. 



Similar to J*, c. ohtcdiix '' l)iit witli dccidctlly .smaller bill and slightly 

 darker coloration. Similar to /'. /nidKonlcvx but .sides of neck white 

 instead of gray, and coloration palei- throughout. 



Adidtf< in ><2>rt n(j aiul )<u iiwirr. — Piloumaiul hindneck plain, deep drab- 

 gray, becoming much darker on loral and postocular regions; back, 

 scapulars, le.sser wing-coverts, rump, and upper tail-coverts plain drab, 

 slightly paler and more buffy posteriorly; wings and tail slate color 

 with pale slate-gray edgings, these broader and nearly, if not quite, 

 white on tertials; malar region, chin, and throat plain dark, sooty 

 brown or very dark sepia, the feathers of lower throat bi-oadly tipped 

 with white; sides of head and neck, between the dusky gular area and 

 grayish brown pileum, white; chest and median portion of breast and 

 abdomen, white; sides and flanks pale wood brown or brownish buff, 

 the under tail-coverts similar, but paler; bill dusky horn color; iris 

 brown; legs and feet brownish dusky (grayish in life 'i). 



AdulU ill mduum and winter. — Similar to the spring and summer 

 plumage, but very slightly deeper in color. 



Adidt y//«A^— Length (skins), 121.5-138.5 (131.3); wing, t)9-T0 (t)9.5); 

 tail, 65.5-68 (66.5); culmen, 9-9.5 (9.2); tarsus, 15.5-16.5 (15.8); mid- 

 dle toe, 8.5-9.5 (9).'' 



Adidtfemale.—y<'mg, 65.5-69.5 (67.5); tail. ^V^-m (65.5);'' culmen, 

 9;'' tarsus, 16 ;« middle toe, 8.^" 



Northern Alaska (St. Michael, valley of Kowak River, etc.) and 

 eastward to northern ^Mackenzie (Fort Anderson, l)reeding); shores of 

 Okhotsk Sea, northeastern Asia?-' 



Parus cindns (not of Boddtn'rt) Kiihiwav, Bull. Nutt. ()rn. Club, ii, Jan., 1878, 

 37 (St. Michael, Alaska); Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., iii, 1880, i:^, 168, 215, 230 

 (do); Norn. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 44.— Allen, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, v, 



«The ty|)e now in the United States National Museum i-ollection. The only rea>ion 

 for considerinji; thi.s specimen different from /*. (jainJ»ii consists in its dusky colora- 

 tion, ol)viously caused l)y contact with charred trees. 



^ See foot note on page 396. 



c Three specimens. 



<^Two specimens. 



*One specimen. 



/Specimens from the .Vsiatic side not seen, but the al)ove locality (Okhotsk) given 

 by Praziik in his original description. 



