[438] BIRDS OF OREGON 



(1890) reported it from Clatsop County; and Keller (18910) reported eggs 

 taken at Salem, May 2.7, 1889, and May 3, 1891. In August 1914, Gold- 

 man found the species at Bend and Fremont, the latter place in the ex- 

 treme eastern edge of the forest belt northwest of Silver Lake. These are 

 the farthest east records except Jewett's specimens from Baker County, 

 mentioned above. 



Dr. A. K. Fisher found these chickadees feeding young at Tillamook 

 between June 30 and July 4, 1897, and on June 2.8 of the same year took 

 a nearly developed egg from a bird collected on Wilson River and now 

 in the Biological Survey collection. Jewett found a nest near Portland, 

 May 3, 1908, containing one egg and in the same district saw a pair 

 building a nest, May 2.1, 1909. Braly took eggs, May 13, 1932., in Wash- 

 ington County, and May 2.2., 1930, in Klamath County. 



Oregon Titmouse: 



Baeolofhus inornatus sequestratus Grinnell and Swarth 



DESCRIPTION. Adults: Plain, unmarked; upper parts, including crest, brownish or 

 olive gray, becoming whitish on the belly. Young: upper parts washed with brown; 

 under parts ashy white. Length: 5.00-5.60, wing 1.68-1.90, tail z.zo-z.6o, bill 

 .38-. 40. (Adapted from Bailey.) Nest: In holes in trees, made of plant fibers, 

 feathers, wool, and other soft materials. Eggs: 6 to 8, white. 



DISTRIBUTION. General: Jackson and Josephine Counties, Oregon, and Siskiyou 

 County, California. In Oregon: Permanent resident of chaparral and oak areas of 

 Jackson and Josephine Counties. 



THE OREGON TITMOUSE, a plain gray little bird, is a common denizen of 

 the chaparral thickets of southern Oregon, where its chickadeelike calls 

 and notes, as well as its deliberately whistled song, are characteristic 

 sounds. Its movements are somewhat slow but otherwise much like 

 those of the chickadees, with which it is frequently found associated. 



The first published reference we have found that ascribed this bird to 

 Oregon is Mrs. Bailey's (1902.) statement that Parus inornatus is a resident 

 in the Pacific Coast region of California and Oregon. She gives no further 

 information. Henninger (192.0) recorded a specimen taken by W. M. 

 Clayton at Ashland, April 17, 1900, as the first record for the State. It 

 is the first definite publication for the State that is based on a specimen, 

 but it is not the first actual specimen, as Henshaw took one at Ashland, 

 February 10, 1881. Jewett (192.1 a) recorded a number of specimens from 

 various points in the Rogue River Valley, and Gabrielson (1931) listed 

 it as one of the common permanent birds of the valley. These are the 

 only published Oregon records, a fact that again emphasizes the lack of 

 field work on birds in the State. Patterson (ms.) reported one nest, 

 May 11, 192.6. 



