ORDER PASSERES. 349 
GENUS PENTHESTES REICHENBACH. 
Penthestes REICHENBACH, Avium Syst. Nat., 1850, pl. Ixii. Type, 
by orig. desig., Parus lugubris TEMMINCK. 
Penthéstes atricapillus (LINN&Us). 
Rance.— North America from tree limit to about the middle of the 
United States. 
a. Penthestes atricapillus atricapillus (LinNmus). Chickadee. [735.] 
Parus atricapillus Linn xus, Syst. Nat., ed. 12, I, 1766, 341. (Canada.) 
RanGe.— Canadian and Transition zones of eastern North America from 
southeastern Keewatin, southern Ungava, and Newfoundland south to central 
Missouri, Illinois, northern Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, northern New 
Jersey, and in the Alleghenies south to North Carolina; somewhat further 
south in winter. 
b. Penthestes atricapillus septentriondlis (Harris). Long-tailed Chickadee. 
[735a.] 
Parus septentrionalis Harris, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., II, 1845, 300. 
(Yellowstone River, about 30 miles ‘“‘below’’ [ = above] its Junction 
with the Missouri, Montana.) 
Rance.— Western North America. Breeds mainly in Canadian and Transi- 
tion zones from Kenai Peninsula, Alaska, central Mackenzie, and southwest- 
ern Keewatin south to northern New Mexico and eastern Kansas, and from 
eastern Oregon east to western Minnesota and western Iowa; south in winter 
to central Texas. 
c. Penthestes atricapillus occidentalis (Barirp). Oregon Chickadee. [735b.] 
Parus occidentalis Barrp, Rep. Expl. & Surv. R. R. Pac., IX, 1858, 391. 
(Shoalwater Bay, Washington.) 
RaNGE.— Transition Zone of Northwest coast from British Columbia to 
Oregon. 
d. Penthestes atricapillus tarneri (Ripcway). Yukon Chickadee. [735c.] 
Parus atricapillus turnert Ripaway, Proe. Biol. Soe. Wash., IT, April 10, 
1884, 89. (St. Michael, Alaska.) 
Rance.— Breeds in Hudsonian Zone of northern Alaska north and west of 
Cook Inlet. 
