lUKDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMKRICA. 687 



Adult female. — Length (skins), 137-151> (14G.5); wing, 54-5H (56.2); 

 tail, 73.5-85 (77.8); culmen, 10.5-11.5 (10.9); tarsus, 24-26 (24.9); 

 middle toe, 13-14.5 (13.7)/' 



Eastern and southern shores of San Francisco Ba}' and lower Sac- 

 ramento Valley, in Santa Clara, Alameda, Contra Costa, Solano ?,^ San 

 Joafjuin. Sacramento, and Yolo ?/' counties, California; accidental in 

 jNIarin Count}- (Nicasio, December 14, 1896). 



Parus fascialus Gambel, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., ii, Auj;., 1845, 265 (Califor- 

 nia; type in coll. U. S. Xat. Mus. ''). 



C[}iamu'a] fascial a Gambel, Joiirn. Ac. Nat. Pci. Phila., 2(1 ser., i, Dec, 1.S47, 34 

 (habits, (loser.; notes, etc.). — Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2(1 ed., 1884, 262, 

 part. — RiDGWAY, ]Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 566, part. 



Chamxa fasciata, Gambel, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., iii, Feb., 1847, 154; Journ. 

 Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 2d ser., i, 1847, pi. 8, fig. 3.— (?) Heermaxx, Journ. 

 Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., ii, 1853, 264, part (no definite locality). — Cassin, Illustr. 

 Birds Cal., Tex., etc., 1853, 39, part (pi. Id ?).— Baird Review Am. Birds, 

 1864, 76, part ("Sacramento Valley").— Cooper, Orn. Cal., 1870, .39, part.— 

 CocEs, Check List, 1873, no. 26, part; 2d ed., 1882, no. 39, part; Birds Col. 

 Val., 1878, 108, part.— Baird, Brewer, and Ridgwav, Hist. N. Am. Birds, 

 i, 1874, 84, part.— Belding, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., i, 1879, 402, part 

 (Stockton, resident; song). — Ridgway, Nom. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 35, 

 part; Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., v, 1882, 14, part (synonymy). — American 

 Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 1886, no. 742, part. — OsGooi?, Proc. 

 Biol. Soc. Wash., xiii, 1899, 41, part (crit. ). — (?) Mailliard, Condor, iii, 

 1901, 126 (San Benito Co., California, resident <•). — Bailey (Florence M.) 

 Ilandb. Birds W. U. S., 1902, 459, part. 



{C1iariuva'\ fasciata Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 79, part. 



[Cham ica fasciata'] war. fasciata Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mns., v, Jnne 5, 1882, 

 14, part (diagnosis). 



« Ten specimens. 



'' No specimens of Chamxa seen by me from these two counties. 



<"In none of Dr. Gambel's articles in which this species is mentioned is there the 

 faintest clue to the locality where he discovered the bird. The only one of Dr. 

 (iambel's specimens extant (assuming that he preserved more than one) is, so far as 

 1 have been able to discover, the one in the National Museum collection. This was 

 given to Professor Baird by Dr. T. B. Wilson, of Philadelphia, who received it from 

 Dr. Gambel; hence, it may safely be accepted as the type. This Ciambel specimen 

 belongs un(]uestionably to the form which inhabits the restricted area about the south- 

 ern and eastern shores of San Francisco Bay and the lower Sacramento Valley, and 

 therefore is not, as supposed by Mr. Osgood, the same form as C. f. hcnshairi, whose 

 error in this respect led Mr. Grinnell to redescribe the form under the name 0. f. 

 intermedia. 



Since the above was written I have received from Mr. Grinnell his type of C. f, 

 intermedia and compared it carefully with Gambel's type of C'. fa-^^ciata. The two are 

 very nearly alike, but Gamljel's type is a little paler^ a difference which may result 

 from fading, since it is a very old specimen. Compared with typical specimens of 

 ( '. f. riifida, the type of C. f. intermedia is not only paler but very much less brownish. 



f'The plate is very deeply colored, and may have been made from an example of 

 C. f. phxa or C. ./". riifida. 



« May be C. f. henshawi. 



