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the Sylviide in the sharp-ridged culmen and bristly gape, but is 
otherwise very different. The excessively rounded wing is a peculiar 
feature, the sixth primary being the longest. 
The family may, perhaps, be best placed between the Sylviide and 
Paride. 
CHAMZ4A, GAMBEL. 
Chamexa, GAMBEL, Pr. A. N. Se. III, 1847, 154. (Type Parus fasciatus.) 
Bill much shorter than head, conical compressed. Culmen much curved ; 
Nostrils linear, covered and nearly hidden by an incumbent 
scale, as in some Wrens. Wings much rounded, about two-thirds the tail ; 
the 6th primary longest; the 3d equal to the secondaries. Tail very long and 
much graduated, the lateral feathers not two-thirds the central; feathers nar- 
row, with narrow outer webs. 
gonys less so. 
The genus, as far as known, embraces but-a single species. 
Chameea fasciata. 
Parus fasciatus, Gampet, Pr. A. N. Se. Aug. 1845, 265 (California).— 
Chamexa fasciata, GAMBEL, Pr. A. N. Sc. III, 1847, 154.—In. J, A. 
N. Se. 2d series, I, 1847, 34, pl. viii, fig. 3.—Casanis, Wiegmann’s 
Archiv, 1848, I, 102.—Cassiy, Illust. I, 1853, 39, pl. vii.—Bairp, 
Birds N. Am. 1858, 370. 
Hab. Coast region of California. 
(5,924, %, California.) Total length, 6.20; wing, 2.30; tail, 3.50, gradua- 
tion, 1.20; exposed portion of lst primary, .85. of 2d, 1.30, of longest, 6th 
(measured from exposed base of 1st primary), 1.80; length of bill from fore- 
head, .52, from nostril, .30; along gape, .60; tarsus, 1.05 ; middle toe and claw, 
-78; claw alone, .23; hind toe and claw, .55 ; claw alone, .39. 
Smith-/Collec- | Sex Wh 
sonian! tor’s | and Locality. Coll ee Received from Collected by 
No. No. |Age. DU Soh ets 
3.339 | California. S. F. Baird. Dr. Gambel. 
7,163 Sacramento Valley. Lt. Williamson. Dr. Heermann. 
5,924 we 3 | Sta. Clara, Cal. sae Dr. Cooper te). "|" a) cease 
25,369 | 607 o¢ | Fort Tejon, Cal. Sept. 1857. Jobin Xantus,\' | 9) Eeeaee 
31,890 | 699 San Diego, Cal. Dec. 5, ’61. Geol. Surv. Cal. Dr. Cooper. 
3,339. Type specimen. (31,890) 6.60; 7.12; 2.25. ‘Iris white.” 
