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weather began. At Carson City they were most numerous in April, and at 

 that time the tliickots along the foot-hills were literally alive with these 

 restless, sprightly little creatures, who hopped briskly among the budding 

 branches, nervously t\\'itching their wings in their characteristic maimer, 

 the males now and then warl^ling their low, soft song, so liquid and 

 indescribably sweet, at the same time displaying the red patch ordinarily 

 concealed beneath the overlying feathers of the crown. 



List of specimens. 



L'25, 9 ad.; West Humboldt Moiuitaius, Nevada, October 3, 1867. ^—GH—Z^— 

 Ij^ — 2 — § — If — i^%■ Bill, liorii-black ; iris, brown; tarsi and toes, brownish yellow, 

 the latter, deep yellow beneath. [No red on the crown.] 



371, i ad.; Truckee Bottom, near Pyramid Lake, December 25. 4^ — 7 — 2/^ — 1 J | — 

 ■j\ — 1} — 1.^ — 1. Bill, deep black ; iris, very dark brown; tarsi, brownish-black; toes, 

 deep brownish-yellow, purer yellow beneath. 



Regulus sateapa. 



4Soldeii-rrownpfl Kiii{;lel. 



Regulus satrapa, Light., Verzeichn., 1823, No. 410. — BAran, B. IST. Am., 1858, 227; 

 Cat. N. Am. B., 18.50, No. 102 ; Review, 18GJ, 05.— B. B. & R., I, 1874, 73, pi. 

 V, fig. 8.— CoopEK, Orn. Cal., 32.— CoUES, Key, 1872, 78, flg. 19; Check List, 

 1873, No. 22; B. N.W., 1874, 10. 



This sprightly little bird, so common in our eastern groves and 

 orchards in early spring and in the autunm, and, except the Hummers, 

 the most diminutive of all our species, was very rarely observed by us in 

 the Great Basin. A very few individuals, however, were noticed in the 

 cations of the West Humboldt Mountains, among the thick bushes along the 

 streams. It is probably nowhere a common bird in the Interior. 



. Family PAHID.^] — Titmice or Chickadees. 



LOIMIOPUANES INORNATUS. 

 Oray Titanouse. 



Parus inornatus, CiAStBEL, Pr. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1845, 265. 



Ijophophanes inornatus, Cassin, 111. B. Cal., Tex., etc., 1853, 10. — Baird, B. N. 

 Am., 1858, 380; Cat. N. Am. B., 1850, No. 287 ; Review, 1804, 78.— B. B. & R., 

 I, 1874, 20, pi. vr, fig. 3.— Coopeu, Orn. Cal., 42.— Coues, Key, 1872, 80, fig. 

 22; Check List, 1873, No. 28; B. N.W., 1874, 20.— Henshaw, 1875, 107. 



In the pine forests of the eastern sloj)e of the Sierra Nevada, especially 



