BIRDS OF NOKTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 435 



Val., 1878, 124, footnote, part.— Ridgway, Norn. X. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 47, 

 part. — Amkrican Oknithologists' Union, Check List, 1886, no. 743, part. — 

 Brooks, Auk, xvii, 1900, 107 (British Columbia). — Rathbcn (S. F. ), Auk, xix, 

 1902, 140 (Seattle, Washington, resident).— Bailey (Florence M.-), Handb. 

 Birds W. U. S., 1902, 460, part (Washington). 



[Pmltni)arus] minimus Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 82, part. 



P[sallripnrns'\ miiumim Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 268, part. — RriK;- 

 wav, ^lan. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 565, part. 



^i \_c(jit}Hd()i\ minimn.t minhmiif Hellmavr, Tierreich, 18 Lief., Mar., 1903, 112, part. 



PSALTRIPARUS MINIMUS CALIFORNICUS Ridgway. 

 SACRAMENTO BUSH-TIT. 



Similar to P. in. minimus but decidedly paler, the pileuin light 

 broccoli brown in sprino- and summer, the back, etc., olive-gray instead 

 of deep smoke gray. (The autumnal and winter plumage very similar 

 to the spring and summer plumage of P. m. minimus.) 



Adult m/?7^>.— Length (skins), 97.5-101 (99.4); wing, 47^9.5 (48. 2); 

 tail, 50-53.5 (52.4); culmen, T; tarsus, 16-17 (16.6); middle toe, 8-9, 

 (8.7).« 



Adult female. — Length (skin), 97.5; wing, 48.5; tail, 50.5; culmen, 

 7; tarsus, 16; middle toe, 8.5.* 



Interior districts of Oregon and California, east of the Cascade 

 range in Oregon, and between coast mountains and crest of the Sierra 

 Nevada in California; north to northeastern Oregon (Wilbur, Uma- 

 tilla County), south to the valley of Kern River (Walkers Basin, etc.), 

 southern California. 



Psaltria niininia (not Parus minimits Townsend) IIeermanx, Journ. Ac. Xat. 

 Sci. Phila., ii, 1853, 264, part; Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., x, pt. iv, 1859, 48, part. 



Psaltriparus minimus Baird, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 397, part (Sacra- 

 mento Valley and Fort Tejon, California); Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, no. 298, 

 part; Review Am. Birds, 1864, 84, jiart (Sacramento Valley, Auburn, and 

 Fort Tejon, California).— Xaxtus, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., xi, 1859, 191 

 (Fort Tejon, California). — Cooper, Orn. Cal., 1870, 48, part (Sierra Nevada, 

 California).— Coues, Check List, 1873, no. 35, part; 2d ed., 1882, no. 53, 

 part; Birds Col. Val., 1878, 124, footnote, part. — Nelson, Proc. Bost. Soc. 

 N. H., xvii, 1875, 356 (Nevada City, California; habits). — Riik;way, Non.. 

 N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 47, part. — AmericanPrnithologists' Union, Check 

 List, 1886, no. 743, part.— Townsend (C. IL), Proc. U.S. Nat. :\Ius., x, 

 1887, 229 (Red Bluff, etc., upper Sacramento Valley; habits; descr. nest). 



[Psaltrip/nnts'] minimus Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 82, part. 



Plsdltriparus'] minimus Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 268, part. 



Psaltriparus minimus, var. minimus Baird, Brewer, and RiniiWAV, Hist. N. Am. 

 Birds, i, 1874, 109, part (Fort Tejon). 



Pscdtriparus minimus minimus Goode, Bull. U. S. Nat. ^lus., no. 20, 1883, 338, 

 part. — Grinnell, Pacific Coast Avifauna, no. 3, 1902, 72, i)art. 



Psaltriparus minlmits cali/ornlnis Ridgway, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., ii, Apr. 10, 

 1884, 89 (P.ainl, Shasta Co., California; coll. U. S. Nat. :\rus.).— American 

 Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 1886, no. 743a, part. 



P[saltripanis'\ minimus californicus Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 5t>o, part. 



«Six specimens. ^One specimen. 



