MARCH 16, 1903 Vou. IV, Pr. 1-2 
PROCEEDINGS 
OF THE 
NEW ENGLAND ZOOLOGICAL CLUB 
A NEW RACE OF THE CAROLINA CHICKADEE 
FROM SOUTHERN FLORIDA. 
BY OUTRAM BANGS. 
LIKE so many other of the resident species of birds of southern 
Florida, the Carolina Chickadee has yielded to the modifying 
influences of the great peninsula and has developed a strongly 
marked South Floridian race. This tiny form of Parus carolinensis 
is by no means common in collections; and though for a long time 
aware of its existence, I have only lately secured typical speci- 
mens. These were taken by C. J. Maynard in March, rgo1, near 
the upper St. John’s River, where he found the bird in pairs and 
breeding. 
This dwarf race of the Carolina Chickadee I propose to call 
Parus carolinensis impiger! subsp. nov. 
Type, from Deep Creek (about three miles from Lake Ashby), Florida, 2 
adult, no. 11,854, coll. of E. A. and O. Bangs, collected March 19, 1gor, by 
C. J. Maynard. 
Characters.— Similar in distribution of colors to true ?. carolinensis, from 
which it differs in very much smaller size, all the parts —wing, tail, tarsus, 
foot and bill — being much shorter than in the more northern form, and in the 
color of the back, which in the new bird is decidedly more drabby or brownish 
gray — less pure gray. 
1 /mpiger — active. 
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