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pares very pale l)rowni,sh g-rayor dull g-rayish white, more buffy gray- 

 ish on sides, flanks, and under tail-coverts; auricular region more or 

 less barred or mottled with darker brownish gray; bill dusky horn 

 color (more gra^nsh in life), with paler tomia; iris brown; legs and 

 feet dusky (bluish gray in life). 



Young. — Similar in coloration to adults, but larger wing-coverts, 

 indistinctly paler and somewhat l)uffy at tips, and texture of plumage 

 distinctly difl'erent. 



Adult 7nale.-~Length (skins), 121-181 (127.2); wing, 66.5-71.5 (68.7); 

 tail, 54-59 (57.1); culmen, 10.5-11.5 (11.2); tarsus, 20.5-21.5 (21.1); 

 middle toe. 12-13.5 (12.9)." 



Adtdt female.— hength (skins), 110-135 (124.9); wing, 63-70 (67.8); 

 tail, 50-60.5 (55.8); culmen, 10.5-12 (11.1); tarsus, 19.5-22 (20.5); 

 middle toe, 12-13 (12.4).'' 



California in general (in oak woods) north of San Bernardino 

 Mountains and Colorado Desert; north to Mendocino and Siskiyou 

 counties; south to Santa Barbara, Ventura, and Kern counties;" east 

 to western slope of Sierra Nevada. 



Parus morrioius Gambel, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., ii, Aug., 1845, 265 (near Mon- 

 terey, California); iii, 1846, 154; Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci., 2d ser., i, 1847, pi. 

 8, fig. 2.— Gadow, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., viii, 1883, 32, part (California).— 

 American Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 1886, no. 733, part. — Town- 

 send (C. H.), Proc. U-. S. Nat. Mus., x, 1887, 228 (Red Bluff, etc., n. Cali- 

 fornia; descr. nest). — Fisher (A. K.), North Am. Fauna, no. 7, 1893, 138 

 (Cajon Pass, Walkers Basin, etc., California). — Bailey (Florence M.), 

 Handb. Birds W. U. S., 1902, 456. 



Fldrusl inornatKs Gambel, Journ. Ac. Nat. 8ci. Phila., i, 1847, 35, (near Mon- 

 terey).— Ridgavay, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 561. 



Parvs inornalun inornatus Grinnell (J.), Pacific Coast Avifauna, no. 3, June 

 25, 1902, 70, part. 



Lophophanes inornatus Baird, in Stansbury's Rep. Great Halt Lake, 1852, 332 

 (California); Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 386, part (Californian local- 

 ities); Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, no. 287, part; Review Am. Birds, 1864, 78, 

 part (Californian localities). — Cassin, Illustr. Birds Cal., Tex., etc., 1853, 

 19.— Heermann, Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 2d ser., ii, 1853, 263 (at least 

 in 'part); Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., x, pt. iv, 1859, 42 (California). — Xantus, 

 Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., xi, 1859, 191 (Fort Tejon, California) .—Scla- 

 TER, Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 14 (Sacramento, California). — Cooper, Orn. Cal., 

 1870, 42, part. — Ridgway, Bull. Essex Inst., v, 1873, 189, part (crit.); Nom. 

 N. Am. Birds, 1881, 38, part.— Coues, Check List, 1873, no. 28, part; 2d ed., 

 1882, no. 41, part; Birds N. W., 1874, 20, part (in synonymy); Birds Col. 

 Val., 1878, 114, ])art. — Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, 

 i, 1874, 91, part, pi. 6, fig. 3.— Henshaw, Am. Rep. U. S. Geol. Surv. W. 

 100th Merid., 1875, 229 (Santa Barbara (Fort Tejon, Walkers Basin, etc., 

 California).— Cooper (W. A.), Bull. Nutt Orn. Club, iii, 1878, 68, 69 (Santa 

 Cruz, California; breeding habits). — Brewster, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, iv, 

 1879, 39 (Oakdale, Stanislaus Co., California; descr. young). — Belding, 

 Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., i, 1879, 400 (Stockton, Calaveras Co., etc.; descr. nest 

 and eggs). 



«Ten specimens. ^ Also northern portion of J.ios Angeles County. 



