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Adult mah. —Length (skins), 110.5-12«;.,'i (US); ^vin<,^ ♦;(M)5 (61.9); 

 tail, 53.5-5S (5<>.5); culmcn, 0-10 (0.3); tarsus, 1»)-17.5 (16.9); middle 

 toe, 9.5-11 (10.4)«. 



Adult female.— ^IjQngth (skins), 113.5-121 (119.5); wing-, 58-61.5 

 (59.5); tail, 53-57.5 (55); culmen. 9-l(t (9.5); tarsus, 15.5-lT (16.5); 

 middle toe, 10-10.5 (10.2)". 



Humid northwest coast district, from the Columhia River to British 

 Columbia (Port Moody; Agassiz). 



ParuH atricapiUus ? {not Parus atricapilhix JAiuirr'us) Newbekky, Kep. Pafitic K. R. 



Surv., X, pt. iv, 1857, 79 (California, Oregon). 

 Parus atricapiUui^ Allex, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., ii, 1871, 2t)l, j)art (crit. ). — 



(lAUOw, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., viii, 1888, 44, part. 

 Pin-Hs occidmtalis Baikd, Rep. Pacfic R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 891 (Slioahvater Bay, 



Washington; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.); Cat. X. Am. Birds, 1859, no. 291; 



Review Am. Birds, 1864, 81. — Cooi'ek and Sucklev, Rep. Pacitie R. R. Surv., 



xii, pt. ii, 1860, li)4 (Puget Sound and Fort Vancouver, Washington; Wiha- 



iiiette Valley, Oregon). — Sclater, Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 14 (Shoalvvater 



Bay).— Ei.MOT, lUustr. New an<l Unfig. N. Am. Birds, i, 1869, pi. 8.— 



Cooper, Orn. Cal., 1870, 45. -i 



\^ParH.9 atncdpillusi Var. occidentaliH Coi?es, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 81. 

 Panis atrlcapilliis . . . var. occldentdlix Coues, Check List, 1873, no. 'Sir. 

 ParuH africapiUus, var. occidentaJi^ Baikd, I^rewer, and RiniiWAY, Hist. X. Am. 



Birds, i, 1874, 101. 

 Paraa var. occidentalLs Baird, Brewer, and Riiujwav, Hist. X. Am. Birds, i, 



1874, pi. 7, fig. 3. 

 (?) Pants atricapillus occidodalls Ridgwav, Bull. Essex Inst., vi, Oct., 1874, 172 



(Sacramento Valley, California). — Evermann, Auk, iii, 1886, 186 (Ventura 



Co., California, rare winter resid. ). 

 Pants atricapillus accidcntalis Ridgwav, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., iii, Aug. 24, 1880, 



168; Xom. X. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 41i. — A.merican Orxithologists' Uxiox, 



Check List, 1886, no. 7356.— Faxnix, Check List Birds Brit. Col., 1891, 44 



(west side of Cascade Range).— Chapman, Bull. Am. Mus. X. H., iii, 1900, 153 



(coast British Columbia).— Ratiibi-x (S. F.), Auk, xix, 1902, 140 (Seattle, 



Washingt(jn, resident). 

 Pl^anis} a[tricapillus'] occidentalis Coues, Kej' X". Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1S84, 2(56. — 



Bailey (Florence M.), Handb. Birds W. V. S., 1902, 458. 

 Plarus'] atricapillus occidentalis Ridgway*, ]Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 563. 

 [Pants atricapillus] y. occidentalis Ridgway. Orn. 40th Parallel, 1877, 412 



(synonymy). 

 P[«iv(s] (Poecile) atricapillus occidentalis Hellmayr, Tierreich, 18 Lief., INIar., 



1903, 56. 



PENTHESTES CAROLINENSIS CAROLINENSIS lAudubon). 

 CAROLINA CHICKADEE. 



Similar to /'. atricapilhi^ atricap'tlhi.s but deeidedly smaller, with 

 relatively shorter tail and larger bill, darker coloiation. with little if 

 any wliite on wings and tail, and with th(^ black thr()at-]iatch abruptly 

 defined posteriorly. 



a Ten speciu^ens. 



