424 BULLETIN 191, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



PABUS INOaNATUS ZAL£PTUS (Oberbolsvr) 

 WARNER VALLEY TITMOUSE 



The above name has been applied by Dr. H. C. Oberholser (1932; 

 to tlie birds of this species, Hving in the Warner Valley region of 

 southern Oregon. He describes them as "similar to Baeolophus 

 inornatus yriseus, but much more grayish above with practically none 

 of the brownish tinge so evident in the latter race; also paler above; 

 and somewhat lighter, more clearly grayish below, \vith little or no 

 buffy wash." He says that this rac.e is "very different from Baeolophus 

 inornatus sequestratus Grinnell in its larger size and much paler, more 

 grayish coloration." The habits, so far as knov.n, are not di.stinctive, 



PARUS WOLLWEBEKl ANNEXUS Cassin 

 BRIDLED TITMOUSE 



HABITS 



The oddly marked bridled titmouse, with its sharply pointed crest, 

 its black-and-white-striped head, and its vivacious and friendly manners, 

 is, to my mind, the prettiest and the most attractive of all the crested 

 tits. Only those of us who have traveled in Arizona or New Mexico, 

 or farther south into the highlands of Mexico, have been privileged to 

 see it, for it is a Alexican species that finds its northern limits in a 

 rather restricted area in southwestern New Mexico and southern Ari- 

 zona. We found it rather common in the oak-clad foothills of the 

 Huachuca Mountains, where the striking color pattern of its pretty 

 head gave it an air of distinction and always attracted our admiration. 

 We found it most commonly from the base of the mountains, about 

 5,000 feet, up to about 6,000 feet. Harry S. Swarth (1904) writes: 

 "This, one of the characteristic birds of the mountains of Southern 

 Arizona, is found in the greatest abundance everywhere in the oak 

 regions of the Huachucas, breeding occasionally up to 7,000 feet, but 

 most abandant below 6,000 feet. On one occasion, late in the summer, 

 I saw a Bridled Titmouse in a flock of Lead-colored Bush Tits on the 

 divide of the mountains at about 8,500 feet, but it is very unusual to 

 see the species at such an altitude." 



Mrs. Bailey (1928) says of its haunts in New Mexico: "Small flocks 

 of about half a dozen each, probably families, were eagerly met with 

 among the blue oaks, junipers, and nut pines of San Francisco Canyon, 

 where they were associated with Lead-colored Bush-Tits and Gray 

 Titmice. Other small flocks of the prettily marked Bridled were later 

 discovered in sycamores in the open valley, at the junction of White 



