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Allen, Recently Described North Atnerican Birds. |_April 



restricting true borealis to the eastern portion of North America. In 

 winter invictus comes south as far as the northwestern United States." 

 A specimen is recorded from Quincy, California, and another from Lac 

 Qui Parle County, Minnesota. 



Parus rufescens barlowi Gritutell. 

 Barlow's Chicadee. 



Parus rufescens ba r/ozu i Gri^'!>!e.i^i^, Condor., Nov. 1900, 127. 



" Subsp. char. — Similar to P. rufesceiis neglecttcs, but the sides pure 

 smoked gray without a trace of rusty." 



Type locality, Stevens's Creek Caiion, Santa Clara Co., California. 



i?«;/_^f', " Coast Range of California south from San Francisco Bay 

 to Monterey County." 



Chamsea fasciata intermedia Griiniell. 



Intermediate Wren-tit. 



ChamcEa fasciata i)iter?nedia Grinnell, Condor, II, July, 1900, 86. 



Description. — Back and upper tail-coverts sepia, shading into hair 

 brown on nape and top of head. Lores and small spots on upper and 

 lower eyelids pale gray. Throat and breast cinnamon rufous, fading 

 posteriorly into pale vinaceous cinnamon on middle of belly. Feathers 

 on breast with faint dusky shait-streaks. Sides, flanks and lower tail- 

 coverts brownish olive. Under wing-coverts and axillars pale vinaceous 

 cinnamon. Wings and tail clove brown, the feathers with slightly paler 

 edgings." 



Type locality, Palo Alto, Santa Clara Co., California. Range, " the 

 San Francisco Bay region." 



Intermediate in characters, as in geographical range, between C. fasciata 

 and C. fasciata phcea. 



Merula migratoria achrustera Batchelder. 



Merula migratoria achrustera Batchelder, Proc. N. Engl. Zool. Club, 

 I, 104, March 6, 1900. 



" Type, from Raleigh, North Carolina, J ad.. No. 6433, Coll. C. F. 

 Batchelder, taken June 8, 1894, by H. H. and C. S. Brimley. 



"■ Subspecifc characters. — Size considerably less than in M. migratoria. 

 Colors in general much lighter and duller. 



"Adult male in breeding season : whole top and sides of head and nape 

 dull black, wing-coverts and rump dull gray, tinged with olive brown 



