^°^914''^^] SwARTH, California Forms of Pmltriparvs. 509 



tendency to ignore the subspecies calif ortiicus. Following are quo- 

 tations of ranges as given in the publications cited. 



Psaltriparus minimus minimus. 



"Pacific coast region, from San Francisco Bay, California, to 

 Washington ' ' (Oberholser) . 



" West slope of coast mountains in Oregon, California, and north- 

 ern Lower California, north to the Columbia River, south to 

 Nachoguero Valley, Lower California (also to San Pedro Martir 

 Mts., and San Fernando?)" (Ridgway). 



"Transition and L^pper Sonoran zones of the Pacific coast from 

 southern British Columbia and northern Washington to northern 

 Lower California" (A. O. U. Check-List). 



Psaltriparus minimus californicus. 



" California, excepting the northern coast region; northern Lower 

 California" (Oberholser). 



" Interior districts of Oregon and California east of the Cascade 

 range in Oregon, and between coast mountains and crest of the 

 Sierra Nevada in California; north to northwestern Oregon (Wil- 

 bur, Umatilla County), south to the valley of Kern River (Walker's 

 Basin, etc.), southern California" (Ridgway). 



" Transition and Upper Sonoran zones of Oregon and California 

 (except coast strip) from northeastern Oregon to southern Cali- 

 fornia" (A. 0. U. Check-List). 



Among these contradictory views it will be noted that one author- 

 ity restricts minimus to the coast region north of San Francisco 

 Bay, while another apportions both minimus and californicus to 

 southern California. The ranges ascribed to minimus and cali- 

 fornicus by Oberholser are similar to an earlier disposition of the 

 races by Ridgway (1884, p. 89). 



The results of the present study are most nearly in accord with 

 Ridgway 's later statements ; that is, as regards distribution in Cali- 

 fornia. There has been no Lower California material available, 

 and while the few specimens at hand from the range of the northern 

 form named saturatus are not appreciably different from apparently 



