350 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 
Penthestes carolinénsis (AUDUBON). 
RANGE.— Southeastern United States west to eastern Texas. 
a. Penthestes carolinensis carolinensis (AUDUBON). Carolina Chickadee. 
[736.] 
Parus carolinensis AupuBon, Orn. Biog., II, 1834, 341. (Near New 
Orleans, La., or Charleston, 8. C.) 
RanGe.— Southeastern United States. Breeds in Carolinian and Austro- 
riparian zones from central Missouri, Indiana, central Ohio, Pennsylvania 
(sparingly), and central New Jersey, south to southeastern Louisiana, the 
Gulf coast, and northern Florida. 
b. Penthestes carolinensis agilis (SENNETT). Plumbeous Chickadee. [736a.] 
Parus carolinensis agilis SpENNeTT, Auk, V, Jan., 1888, 46. (Bee Co., 
Texas.) 
Rance.— Western part of the Lower Mississippi Valley. Breeds in Lower 
Austral Zone from northern Oklahoma to Refugio and Kendall counties, 
Texas, and east to northwestern Louisiana. 
c. Penthestes carolinensis impiger (Banas). Florida Chickadee. [736b.] 
Parus carolinensis impiger Banas, Proc. N. Engl. Zoédl. Club, IV, March 
16, 1903, 1. (Deep Creek, about 3 miles from Lake Ashby, Florida.) 
RanGce.— East central Florida. 
Penthestes sclateri (KLEINSCHMIDT). Mexican Chickadee. [737.] 
Parus sclateri KLEINSCHMIDT, Journ. fiir Orn., 1897, 92 (note). (El 
Jacale, eastern Mexico.) 
RanGE.— Canadian and Transition zones in mountains of southern 
Arizona and southwestern New Mexico east to Coahuila and south to 
Michoacan and Oaxaca, Mexico. 
Penthestes gambeli (Ripaway). 
Rance.— Mountains of western North America from central British 
Columbia to Lower California. 
a. Penthestes gambeli gambeli (RIpGway). Mountain Chickadee. [738.] 
Parus gambeli Ripaway, in A. O. U. Check-List, 1886, 335. (About one 
day’s journey west of Santa Fé, New Mexico.) 
Ranee.— Canadian and Transition zones in mountains from central British 
Columbia, west central Alberta, and east central Montana south to the 
southern Sierra Nevada in California and mountains of Arizona, New Mexico, 
and western Texas. 
