434 BULLETIN 50, UlSTITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



\_Psaltrij)aTUf:'] minimus Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 82, part. 



Pl^saltriparus'] minimum Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 268, part. — 



RiDGWAY, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 565, part. 

 Psaltriparus minimus, var. minimus Baird, Brewer, ami Riiigway, Hist. N. Am. 



Birds, i, 1874, 109, part. 

 Psaltriparus minimus minimus Goode, Bull. U. 8. Nat. Mus., no. 20, 1883, 338, 



part. — Geinnell, (J.) Pacific Coast Avifauna, no. 3, 1902, 72, part. 

 AHegitlialos'] minimus minimus llEhhyiKYRfTierrek'h, 18 Lief., Mar., 1903, 112, part. 

 Psaltriparus minimus californicus, part, Ridgway, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., 11, 



1884, 89 (southern coast distr., California). — American Ornithologists' 



Union, Check List, 1886, no. 743(7, part. — Emerson, Bull. 7, Calif. Ac. Sci., 



1887, 424, 431 (San Diego Co., California).— (?) Anthony, Zoe, iv, 1898, 



246 (San Pedro Martir Mts., Lower California, chiefly below 3,000 ft. «); 



(?) Auk, xii, 1895, 143 (San Fernando, Lower California «)-—Merriam 



(Florence A.), Auk, xiii, 1896, 123 (Twin Oaks, San Diego Co., California; 



habits). — Grinnell (J.), Pub. 2, Pasadena Ac. Sci., 1898, 50 (Los Angeles 



Co., California, resident). 

 Pl^saltriparusl minimus californicus Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 565, 



part. 

 Pl^saltriparusl ?n[mi»iM.s] californicus Bailey (Florence M. ), Handb. Birds W. 



U. S., 1902, 461, part. 

 A\_egithalos'] minijnus californicus HEhhsi ay r, Tierreich, 18 Lief., Mar. 1903, 112, 



part. 



PSALTRIPARUS MINIMUS SATURATUS, new subspecies.^ 

 PUGET SOUND BUSH-TIT. 



Similar to P. /n. minimus, but darker in corresponding plumages, 

 the spring and summer pktmage about as dark above as the autumn 

 and winter plumage of P. in. nu'nhnus, and decidedly darker below, 

 especially the brown of sides and flanks; young with color of pileum 

 duller, more grayish sooty. 



Adult 7nale.—hength (skins), 101-106.5 (104); wing, 40-48.5 (47.5); 

 tail, 62-54 (53.1); culmen, 7-7.5 (7.1); tarsus, 16-16.5 (16.1); middle 

 toe, 8.5.'- 



Adult female.— hength (skins), 102.5-108.5 (106.2); wing, 46-48 

 (46.6); tail, 51-52.5 (51.9); culmen, 6.5-7 (6.9); tarsus, 15.5-16 (15.7); 

 middle toe, 8-8.5 (8.4).'^ 



Vicinity of Puget Sound (Fort Steilacoom, Seattle, Mount Vernon, 

 etc., Washington). 



Psaltriparus minimus (not Partis minimus Townsend) Baird, Rep. Pacific R. R. 

 Surv., ix, 1858, 397, part (Fort Steilacoom, Washington); Cat. N. Am. 

 Birds, 1859, no. 298, part; Review Am. Birds, 1864, 84, part (Fort Steila- 

 coom). — Cooper and Suckley, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., xii, pt. 2, 1860, 195, 

 part (Fort Steilacoom).— Cooper, Orn. Cal., 1870, 48, part (in synonymy). — 

 Coues, Check List, 1873, no. 35, part; 2d ed., 1882, no. 53, part; Birds Col. 



« Specimens from the localities mentioned not seen by me. 



''Type, no. 136372, coll. U. S. Nat. Mus. (Biological Survey coll.), Mount Vernon, 

 Washington, December 11, 1895; C. P. Streator, 

 t' Four specimens. 

 d Five specimens. 



