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over the auriculars, as in the 9 <>f -P- Uoi/cli. Said to be smaller than P. plumheus, but the 

 ascribed dimensions do not bear out the statement. Santa Rita Mts. of Southern Arizona. 

 RiDGW., Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus., x, Sejtt. 1888, p. 697; Coues, Key, 4th ed., 1890, p. 898; 

 A. 0. U. List, 2d ed., 1895, p. 312, No. 744.1. 



P. lloyd'i. (To Wm. Lloyd.) Lloyd's Black-eared Bush-tit. ^, adult : Sides of head 

 broadly black with greenish lustre, the bands meeting narrowly across chin, and nearly meet- 

 ing on nape. Crown and nape clear ash. Back hair-brown. Wings and tail fuscous, with 

 narrow pale ashy edgings of the feathers; outer webs and tips of outer tail-feathers, and inner 

 webs of many wing-feathers, whitish. Below, white, pure on throat and sides of neck, thence 

 passing through lavender-gray to rusty-brownish on flanks and crissum. Bill and feet black ; 

 iris brown. 9 j adult : Black of head reduced to ?. streak along each side of the occiput, leav- 

 ing sides of head light brown. Young $ quite similar to the adult, having glossy black on 

 head before it is fully feathered ; but the black marks do not at flrst meet on chin. Length 

 about 4.00; wing 1.90; tail 2.25; bill 0.25, compressed, with very convex culmen and nearly 

 straight under outline; tarsus 0.60; middle toe and claw 0.45. Northern Mexico, from Sonora 

 and Chihuahua into Arizona, New Mexico, and W. Texas. P. melanotis of earlier eds. of rhe 

 Key, ascertained to be different from true melanotis of Mexico ; P. lloydi Sennett, Auk, 

 Jan. 1888, p. 43; Key, 4th ed.. 1890, p. 898; A. 0. U. List, 2d ed., 1895, p. 312, No. 745. 

 Xt'st pensile, pear-shaped, with large end downward, about 6 inches long, made of mosses, 

 lichens, and plant-stems, lined with feathers ; eggs white, unmarked, 0.58 X 0.42. The bird 

 has been found breeding in pineries, at an altitude oi over 6,000 feet ; a nest was affixed to 

 twigs of a cedar tree, 7 feet from the ground. 



AURIP'ARUS. (Lat. auri, of gold, i\m\ parus, a tit; from the yeUow head.) Gold-tits. 

 Head not crested. Wings pointed ; 2d quill little shorter than 3d; 1st spurious. Tail little 

 rounded, decidedly shorter than wiugs. Bill not typically Parine — extremely acute, with 

 straight or slightly concave under outline, and barely convex culmen, thus resembling that of 

 ■A Helmintliopliila ; longer and slenderer than usual in Pann« ; nostrils scarcely concealed by 

 the imperfect ruff. Tarsus relatively shorter than in preceding genera. Bright colors on head 

 (yellow) and wing (red). Plumage comparatively compact ; sexes alike, but young very differ- 

 ent from adults. Size very small. General form Sylvicoline. Nest globular, woven. Eggs 

 spotted. One sjiecies. 



A. flav'iceps. (Lat. flaviceps, yellow-head.) Gold-tit. Verdin. Yellow-headed 

 TiT.MOUSE. (J 9 ) adult : Upper parts ashy ; under parts whitish ; wings and tail dusky, with 

 lioary edging. Whole head rich yellow. Lesser wing-coverts chestnut-red. Bill dark plum- 

 Im'ous; feet plumbeous. Length 4.00-4.25; wing 2.00; tail 2.25. Young without red on 

 wing or yellow on head ; thus obscure objects, known, however, by their generic characters. 

 Adults vary in having the yellow heightened to orange, or dull and greenish ; the red some- 

 times haematitic ; and shade of the ashy clear and pure, or dull and brownish. Valleys of the 

 Rio Grande and Colorado, N. to S. Nevada and S. W. Utah, S. extensively in Mexico; resident 

 in most of its range ; abundant in chaparral, building in bushes a great globular or purse-like 

 nest c)f twigs, lined with down and feathers ; eggs 4-6, 0.60 X 0.45, pale bluish speckled with 

 brown. 



A. f. laniproceph'alus. (Gr. \afji7rp6s. lampros, briglit ; K((pa\T], IrjiJuiIr, licad.) Brioht- 

 headed Titmol'se. 'Like flaviceps ; head clearer yellow; wings shorter: tail much shorter. 

 Lower California. Included under /ai'jce/>s in former eds. of the Key. A. f. ornatus Bry- 

 ant, Zoe, i, 1890, p. 149 (nee Conirostrum ornatum Lawr.). A. f. lamprocephalus Ober- 

 HOLSER, Auk, Oct. 1897, p. 391 ; A. 0. U. Suppl. List, Auk, Jan. 1899, p. 126. 



