CHAPTEK v. — WREN-TITS 



Fam. CHAM^ID^ 



THIS small group was proposed in 1864, by Professor Baird, 

 for the accommodation of a single genus and spe -ies not 

 readily referable to any established familv; although, as its 

 proposer suggested, the bird may belong to some recognized 

 exotic group. Its characters, which are in effect the same as 

 those of the genus Chamtm, are given under head of the latter. 



Genus CHAMPA Gambel 



Chars. — Form and general aspect combining features of 

 Wrens and Titmice. Plumage extraordinarily lax, soft and full. 

 Coloration simple. Tarsal scutelUi obsolete, or faintly indi- 

 cated. Toes coherent at base for about half the length of the 

 proximal joint of the middle one. Soles widened and padded, 

 much as in Parirkc. Primaries 10, the sixth longest, the third 

 equal to the longest secondaries, the first about f as long as 

 the longest; wing thus extremely rounded, and much shorter 

 than the tail (about § as long). Tail very long, constituting 

 more tban half the entire length of the bird, extremely gradu- 

 ated, with soft, narrow feathers, widening somewhat toward 

 their tips, rounded at the end, the lateral pair not two thirds 

 as long as the middle. Bill much shorter than head, straight, 

 stout, compressed-conical, not notched, with ridged culmen, 

 naked, scaled, linear nostrils, and strongly bristled gape. 



The genus may be found referable to the Troglodytidcc in the 

 vicinity of Cinnicerthia. 



TBie T% reii-tit 



Ctaamsea fasciata 



Pams fasciatus, Gamh. Pr. Pliila. Acad. ii. 1845, 265 (California). 



Cbamtra fasciata, Gnmb. Pr. Phila. Acad. iii. IP4n, 154 (type).— Gamft. Journ. Phila. .4cad. 



2a ser. i. 1847, 34, pi. 8, f. X—Cass. 111. i. 1853, .39, \,\.1.—Xnnt. Pr. Phila. Acad. xi. 



J8.59, \9\.—nd. RAB. i. 18fi4, 16. — Coop. Am. Nat. iii. 18fi9. 185. — Coo;>. B. Gal. i. 1870, 



30, figH. — Cones, Key, 1872, 7<i.— Coop. Am. Nat. viii. 1874, IT.— C. B. Sf R. NAB. 



1874, 84, figs., pi. 6, f. %.—Nds. Pr. Bost. Soc. xvii. 1875, 356 



