414 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



North Am. Fauna, no. 22, 1902, 129 (Echimamish, Eobinson Portage, Oxford 



House, Knee Lake, York Factory, and Hill R., Kewatin). 

 [ParusJ hwlsonicus Latham, index Orn., i, 1790, 566. — Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 



232, no. 3359.— CouES, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 81, part. 

 P[arM.s] hudsonicus Nelson, Bull. Essex Inst., viii, 1876, 95 (Rock Island, n. w. 



Illinois; n. e. Illinois, rare winter visitant; Racine, Wisconsin ( 1 spec, Jan., 



1852).— CouES, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 267, part.— Ridgway, Man. 



N. Am. Birds, 1887, 564, part. 

 P[_aTUS^ {Poecile) hudsonicus hudsonicus Hellmayr, Tierreich, 18 Lief., Mar., 



1903, 71, part 

 F[arus'] h[iidsnnicus'] evnra CouES, Kej^ N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 188-4, 267 (Alaska; 



neither type locality nor type specified). 

 Farus liudsonicvs evura Rhoads Auk, x, Oct., 1893, 331 (descr., crit., etc.) — 



Bishop, N. Am. Fauna, no. 10, 1900, 93 (Caribou Crossing, Lake Tagish, 



Lake Lebarge, St. Michael, etc., Alaska); Auk, xvii, 1900, 118 (crit.). — Grin- 



NELL (J.), Pacific Coast Avifauna, no. 1, 1900, 60 (Kowak R., Alaska; habits; 



crit.). — McGregor, Condor, iv, 1902, 144 (Signal Cairn, Norton Sound, 



Alaska). 

 P[arn.s'] {Poerile) }ivdsonlni,s evnra Hellmayr, Tierreich, 18 Lief., Mar., 1903, 72. 

 Parus hudsonicus ungava Rhoads, Auk, x, Oct., 1893, 328 (Fort Chimo, Ungava; 



coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.). 

 Parus hudsonicits llftoralis (not of Bryant) Chapman, Bidl. Am. Mus. N. H., xvi, 



1902, 245, part (Ungava). 

 Parus stoiieiji Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 591, 592 (Kowak R., n. w. 



Alaska; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.).— Chapman, Auk, v, 1888, 400. 

 J'imis hudsonicus stoneyi American Ornithologists' Union Committee, First 



Suppl. to Check List, 1889, 17; Check List, 2ded., 1895, no. 740 a.— Rhoads, 



Auk, x, 1893, 24, 330 (crit.; range).— Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 



1896, 611.— Chapman, Bull. Am. Mus. N. LI., xvi, 1902, 245 (diagnosis; 



Kowak R. ) 

 l'[_ariis] (Poecile) hudsonlciii^ stonei/i Hellmayr, Tierreich, IS Lief., Mar., 1903, 72. 



PENTHESTES HUDSONICUS COLUMBIANUS (Rhoads). 

 COLUMBIAN CHICKADEE. 



Similar to 1\ h. hudtionlvMa^ but slightly darker and less brown 

 above, especially the pileum and hindneck; chin and throat more 

 decidedly black; bill relatively larger. 



Adult male.— I^Qw^ih (skins), 117.5-140.5 (128. T); wing, 63-69 {m)\ 

 tail, 61-66.5 (64); culmen, 8.5-10 (9.6); tarsus, 16-17.5 (17); middle 

 toe, 9-9.5 (9.2).« 



AduU female.— \.^\\^t\^ (skins), 120-127.5 (124.3); wing, 64-68.5 

 (65.6); tail, 61.5-66.5 (63.4); culmen, 9-9.5 (9.1); tarsus, 16.5-17.5 

 (16.9); middle toe, 8.5-9.5 (9.1).* 



Northern Rocky Mountain district, from interior of British Colum- 

 bia (Field, Eagle Pass, Toad Mountain, etc.); northern Montana (St. 

 Marys Lakes), and Alberta (Edmonton, Smoke Valley, Grand Cache, 

 Whitemud, etc.), to Kenai Peninsula, Alaska. 



" Thirteen specimens. '' Five specimens. 



