•580 Grinnell, Chestnut-backed Chickadee. Ljulv 



Localities of Occurrence. 



Pants rii/escens riifescetts. 



Specimens examined. — Sitka, Alaska. British Columbia: Mt. Leh- 

 man ; North Saavich, Vancouver Id. Fort Canbv, Wash. Oregon : 

 Cedar Mill, Washington Co. ; Salem ; Butteville ; Upper Klamath Lake. 

 California: Siskijou Mts. ; Eureka; Healdsburg ; Mt. St. Helena. 



Other stations (mostly from published records). — Alaska: Juneau; 

 Portage Bay ; Lituya Bay ; Haines; Skaguay ; Glacier. Qiieen Charlotte 

 Ids., B.C. Washington: Seattle; Ft. Steilacoom ; Ft. Vancouver; 

 Gray's Harbor; Cape Disappointment; Stehekine Valley, Okanogan Co. 

 Idaho: Coeur d'Alene Mts.; Ft. Sherman. Oregon: Wilbur; Yakina 

 Bay; Dayton; Sheridan; Portland; Corvallis ; Clatsop Co. California: 

 Cahto, Mendocino Co. ; west base Mt. Shasta. 



Pants rufescens neglectus. 



Specimens examined (all from California). — Marin County: San 

 Geronimo; Nicasio ; Fairfax. Sonoma County: Sebastopol (interme- 

 diate, toward rufescens) ; Cazadero (intermediate, toward rufescens). 



Record station. — -Ukiah, Mendocino Co. 



Pants rufescens barlozvi. 



Specimens examined (all from California). — San Mateo County : San 

 Mateo; King Mt. ; Woodside ; Pescadero Cr. ; La Honda. Santa Clara 

 County: Palo Alto ; Stanford University ; Stevens Creek Canon ; Gilroy. 

 Alameda County: Hay wards ; Alvarado. Monterey County: Monterey; 

 Pacific Grove ; Carmel Bay. 



Other stations (from published records). — San Francisco. Santa Cruz 

 County : Boulder Creek ; Santa Cruz ; Saratoga ; Watsonville. Little 

 Sur River, Monterey Co. 



Synonymy. 



Parus rufescens rufescens. 



Pants rufescetis Townsend, Journ. Ac. Nat. Sc. Phil. VII, 1S37, 190 

 (orig. descr. ; "Inhabits the forests of the Columbia river"). — Audubon, 

 Orn. Biog. IV, 1838,371. — Townsend, Journ. Ac. Nat. Sc. Phil. VIII, 

 1839, 152. — Audubon, Synopsis, 1839, 80. — Nuttai.l, Man. Orn. I, 1840, 

 267, part (notes and habits). — Audubon, Bds. Am. 1841, 158, pi. 129. — 

 Cassin, Bds. Cal. & Tex., 1S53, 18.— Baird, Pac. R. R. Rep. IX, 1S5S, 

 394, part (Ft. Vancouver; etc.). — Cooper & Suckley, Pac. R. R. Rep. 

 XII, i860, Zool. Rep., 194 (Ft. Steilacoom). — "Sclater, Cat. Am. Bds., 

 i86i, 14, No. 86." — Baird, Rev. Am. Bds., Aug. 1864,83, part. — Brown, 



