APPENDIX. 611 



(95.) Page 504, P. hudsonicus. This includes two additional forms, as follows: 



740rt. Parus hudsonicus stoneyi Ridqw. Kowak Chickadee.' 

 Similar to P. hudsonicus, but much grayer above, sides of neck purer ash- 

 gray, sides much paler rusty, and throat clear slate-black instead of sooty 

 blackish; wing 2.55-2.75 (2.62), tail 2.60-2.65, (2.G2), exposed culmen .30-.35 

 (.32), tarsus .62-.70. Hah. Kowak River, Alaska. 



7406. Parus hudsonicus columbianus Rhoads. Columbian Chickadee.' 

 Larger than P. hudsonicus (wing averaging 2.70, tail 2.64). '-Colors niuch 

 darker throughout. Black of throat jet, without sooty suffusion, its posterior 

 border abruptly defined and lacking invasion of white tips seen in hiidsonicus. 

 Bill black, lacking any tinge of brown. Brownish loral area of hudsonicus 

 replaced by sooty black and connected by a distinct frontal band of same color. 

 Crown and hind neck slaty drab with brownish tinge obsolete or barely per- 

 ceptible. Back, rump, and tail-coverts gi-ayish brown as in hudsonicus. Wings 

 and tail darker slate gi'ay, the former without the brownish or graj-ish tips 

 always (?) present in hudsonicus and stoneyi (.?). Sides and flanks chocolate 

 (nearly blackish) brown.""" Sab. "Rocky Mountains, from the Liard River 

 south into Montana." 



(96.) Page 565, after P. plumbeus : 



744.1. Psaltriparus santaritas Eidgw. Santa Rita Bnsh-Tit.' 



Similar to P. plumbeus B.virp, but decidedly smaller, with sides of heail 



paler, and male with a more or less distinct blackish line or streak along sides 



of occiput (immediately above auriculars), as in the female of P. lloydi Senxett. 



Mat. Santa Rita Mountains, southern Arizona. 



(97.) Page 565, under Psaltriparus melanotis : 



745. Psaltriparus lloydi Sen\. Lloyd's Bush-Tit' 



Similar to P. melanotis, but much grayer, the back, scapulars, and rump 



ash-gray instead of brown, and the under parts white, tinged with vinaceous 



on flanks, instead of having only the chin and throat white. Hab. "Mountains 



of western Texas, between the Pecos and the Rio Grande." 



P. melanotis iulus Jonr (Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. xvi. 1S94, 776), from the 

 Sierra Madre of Mexico (Jalisco to Chihuahua), is intermediate in coloration 

 between P. melanotis and P. lloydii, but nearer the former, the back being 

 grayish brown instead of ash-gray (as in P. lloydi) or yellowish bistre-brown 

 (as in P. vielanotis). 



P. melanotis does not occur within our limits. 



' Parut iloncyi RiDOTV., Man. X. Am. B. 1SS7, 591. — Parut hiidtonicut tlontyi RiDOW., in Snppl. to Code 

 of Nora, and Check List, A. 0. U. 18S9, 17. 



» Pirni Jii'/snniVin rolumhinmit RnOAD!!, Aok, X. Jan. l.SJ.I, 23. 



« Pt'^liHpnru, mntnnt.r Ripow., Proc. V. S. Nat. Mus. X. Oct. 12, 1SS7, «97. 



♦ Ptallripanu Ihy,!! Sp:«i , Aiik, v. Jan. 1S?S, 4.1. 



