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EI Rosario) ; California (San Diego, Santa Barbara, Palo Alto, East 

 Park, and Yreka) ; western Oregon (Mosquito Ranger Station, Corval- 

 lis, and Portland) ; Washington (Olympia, Seattle, and Bellingham) ; 

 and southwestern British Columbia (Boundary Bay and Point Grey). 



The range as outlined is for the entire species, which has been sepa- 

 rated into several geographic races, some of which are found only in 

 Mexico and Guatemala. Those occurring in the United States, Canada, 

 and northern Mexico are the coast bushtit (Psaltriparus minimus mini- 

 mus), which ranges along the Pacific coast from southwestern British 

 Columbia south through California to the Mexican border; the Cali- 

 fornia bushtit (P. m. calif amicus), found in the interior from south- 

 central Oregon, south to Kern County, Calif. : the black-tailed bushtit 

 (P. m. melaniirus) of northern Baja California; Grinda's bushtit 

 (P. m. grindae), which occurs in the mountains of the Cape district of 

 Baja California; the lead-colored bushtit (P. m. plumbeus), ranging in 

 the Rocky Mountain region from eastern Oregon and western Wyoming 

 south to Texas and northern Sonora; and Lloy'd bushtit (P. m. lloydi^), 

 which is found from southern New Mexico and western Texas south 

 into northern Mexico. 



Egg dates. — Arizona: 33 records, April 8 to June 12; 17 records, 

 April 17 to May 15, indicating the height of the season. 



California: 124 records, February 26 to July 15: 62 records, April 1 

 to May 7. 



Mexico: 7 records, April 9 to June 3. 



New Mexico: 5 records, April 20 to June 3. 



Texas: 3 records, April 11 to June 21. 



Washington: 11 records, April 13 to July 3. 



PSALTRIPAKUS SHNIMUS C.ALIFOKNICTJS Rldfrway 

 CALIFORNIA BUSHTIT 



This interior race of the bushtits is described by Ridgway (1904) as 

 "similar to P. m. minimus but decidedly paler, the pileum light broccoli 

 brown in spring 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.)" Swarth (1914) 

 says of the distinguishing characters of calif ornicus: "As compared with 

 P. minimus minimus, of clear gray and white tones of color, rather than 

 of the brownish hue of that subspecies. Typical calijorniciis is often 

 almost pure white beneath, noticeably so in the juvenal plumage. Sides 

 and flanks slightly or not at all tinged with vinaceous." 



* Recognized as a subspecies of Psa.ltri'paT'js melanoUs after this account was wjltten. 



