436 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Pl^saltriparus'] m[inimus'\ californicus Bailey (Florence M. ), Handb. Birds W. 



U. S., 1902, 461, part. 

 A\_egithalos'] minimus calif omicus Hellmayr, Tierreich, 18 Lief., Mar., 1903, 112, 



part. 



PSALTRIPARUS GRIND/E Belding. 



GMNDA'S BTJSH-TIT. 



Similar to P. mininius californicus but slightly smaller, with rela- 

 tively smaller feet; color of back, scapulars, rump, and upper tail- 

 coverts much purer (less brownish or olive) gray, and under parts paler. 



Adults in spring and sunnmer. — Pileum and hindneck plain broccoli 

 brown; back, scapulars, lesser wing-coverts, rump, and upper tail- 

 coverts plain gray (between gray no. 6 and mouse gray), abruptly 

 contrasted with brown of hindneck; wings (except lesser coverts) 

 and tail deep brownish gray or hair brown with pale gray edgings; 

 sides of head (including loral, orbital, suborbital, malar, and auricular 

 regions) plain dull brownish white or very pale grayish brown; under 

 parts dull white, the sides and flanks inclining to very pale grayish 

 brown; bill, legs, and feet black. 



Admits in autumn and winter. — Similar to the spring and summer 

 plumage but colors deeper, especially sides of head and under parts, 

 which are pale grayish brown rather than brownish white. 



Adult male.— l^^xi^\\\ (skins), 93.5-103 (98. 6); wing, 44:. 5-49 (47.5); 

 tail, 48.5-55.5 (52.1); culmen, 6.5-7 {^.^)\ tarsus, 14.5-16 (15.3); mid- 

 dle toe, 7.5-8.5 (7.9). « 



Adult female.— \^^VLgi\ (skins), 91.5-99 (95.7); wing, 45-48 (46.6); 

 tail, 47.5-53.5 (50.6); culmen, 6.5-7 (6.8); tarsus, 14-16 (15); middle 

 toe, 7-8 (7.8).« 



Cape St. Lucas district of Lower California (Sierra de la Laguna; 

 Miraflores; San Francisco Mountains; Victoria Mountains). 



Psaltriparus grinche Belding, Ms., Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vi, Oct. 5, 

 1883, 155 (Laguna, Lo\ver California; coll. IT. S. Nat. Mus.); Proc. Biol. Soc. 

 Washington, ii, 1884, 96 (crit.).— Belding, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vi, 1883, 

 347 (San Francisco and Victoria Mts., Lower California). — Reichenow and 

 ScHALOw, Journ. fi'ir Orn., 1886, 438 ( reprint of orig. descr.). — Brewster, Bull. 

 Mus. Comp. Zool., xli, 1902, 205 (Sierra de la Laguna, Lower California; 

 descriptions; crit.; descr. nest). 



Psaltriparus minimus grindie Hidgw ay, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., viii, Sept. 2, 1885, 

 354. — American Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 1886, no. 7436. 



P^saUriparus'] minimus grinche Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 565. 



Alegithalos} mmmus ^midoe Hellmayr, Tierreich, 18 Lief., Mar., 1903, 113. 



Family SITTID^E. 



THE NTJTHATCHES. 



Small, scansorial " ten-primaried '' acutiplantar Oscines with the 

 bill straight, nearl}^ as long as head, neither uncinate nor notched; 

 hallux (without claw) equal to or longer than outer toe (without claw), 



« Ten specimens. 



