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

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

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

 branches, nervously twitching their wings in their characteristic manner, 

 the males now and then warbling their low, soft song, so liquid and 

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

 concealed beneath the overlying feathers of the crown. 

 List of .specimens. 



225, 9 ad.; West Ilumbolilt Mountaius, Nevada, October 3, 1867. 4^6^—21— 

 lj~ — I — I — 15 — 1/g. Bill, horn-black ; iris, browu ; tarsi and toes, brownish-yellow, 

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



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

 yg — 5 — 14 — 1- ^''1' deep black; iris, very dark brown; tarsi, brownish-black; toes, 

 deep brownish-yellow, purer yellow beneath. 



llEGULUS SATKAPA. 



Ooldcii-crowiicd Kinglet. 



Regulus satrapa, Light., Verzeichn., 1823, No. 410. — Baird, B. N. Am., 1858, 227 ; 

 Cat. N. Am. B., 1859, No. 162 ; Review, 1864, 65.— B. B. & R., I, 1874, 73, pi. 

 V, fig. 8.— CoopEU, Orn. Cal., 32.— OouES, Key, 1872, 78, fig. 19 ; Check List, 

 ]873, No. 22; B. N.W., 1874, 16. 



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

 orchards in early spring and in the autumn, 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 

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

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



Family PARIDJ^] — Titmice or Chicicadees. 



LoPIIOPnANES INORNATUS. 



Cray Til 



Parus inornatus, Gajibel, Pr. Ac. Nat. Sci. Pliila., 1,S45, 265. 



Lophophanes inornatus, Cassin, 111. B. (.^al., Tex., etc., 1853, 19. — Baihd, B. N. 

 Am., 1858, 386; Cat. N. Am. B., 1859, No. 287 ; Review, 1864, 78.— B, B. & R., 

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

 22; Check List, 1873, No. 28; B. N.W., 1874, 2a— IIenshaw, 1875, 167. 



In the pine forests of the eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada, especially 



