ORDER PASSERES. 349 



GENUS PENTHESTES REICHENBACH. 



Penthestes REICHENBACH, Avium Syst. Nat., 1850, pi. Ixii. Type, 

 by orig. desig., Parus lugubris TEMMINCK. 



PenthSstes atricapillus (LINNAEUS). 



RANGE. North America from tree limit to about the middle of the 

 United States. 



a. Penthestes atricapillus atricapillus (LINNAEUS). Chickadee. [735.] 

 Parus atricapillus LINNAEUS, 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 septentrionalis (HARRIS). Long-tailed Chickadee. 



[735a.] 



Parus septentrionalis HARRIS, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil a., II, 1845, 300. 

 (Yellowstone River, about 30 miles "below" [ = above] its junction 

 with the Missouri, Montana.) 



RANGE. 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 occiden tails (BAIRD). Oregon Chickadee. [7356.] 



Parus occidentalis BAIRD, Rep. Expl. & Surv. R. R. Pac., IX, 1858, 391. 

 (Shoal water Bay, Washington.) 



RANGE. Transition Zone of Northwest coast from British Columbia to 

 Oregon. 



d. Penthestes atricapillus turneri (RIDGWAY). Yukon Chickadee. [735c.] 



Parus atricapillus lurneri RIDGWAY, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., II, April 10, 

 1884, 89. (St. Michael, Alaska.) 



RANGE. Breeds in Hudsonian Zone of northern Alaska north and west of 

 Cook Inlet. 



