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278. Psaltriparus plumbeus Baird. LEAD-COLORED 

 BUSH-TIT. 



Ridgway. We met with this species on several occa- 

 sions from the very base of the Sierra Nevada eastward 

 to the Wahsatch, Mountains but the localities where it 

 occurred in abundance were few and remote from each 

 other while its habits are so erratic that it was seldom 

 met twice at one place. 



Camp Harney. Bendire. A summer visitor, not 

 abundant. I shot several specimens of this species in 

 November, 1874. On June 6, 1876, I saw several near 

 the summit of Canon City Mountain, evidently breed- 

 ing. 



279. Auriparus flaviceps (Sund.) VERDIN. 



Cooper, 1870. I found numbers of this beautiful bird 

 at Fort Mojave during the whole winter. On the 10th 

 of March I found a pair building. On the 27th of 

 March I found the first nest containing eggs. There 

 were in all cases four. I noticed the nests of this bird 

 in the Algarrobias that grow in a few places on the 

 mountains west of the Colorado Valley and along Mojave 

 River as far west as Point of Rocks. 



Agua Caliente. F. Stephens. Western extremity of 

 Colorado Desert, one shot March 25-28; an old nest 

 seen. Probably this is the western limit of the species. 

 March, 1886, bird and eggs secured. 



Heermann. I found their nests abundant at Fort 

 Yuma, though from the lateness of the season few of the 

 birds remain. 



280. Regulus satrapa olivaceus Baird. WESTERN GOLD- 



EN-CROWNED KINGLET. 



Haywards. W. 0. Emerson. October 16, 1884, rare. 

 Oakland. W. E. Bryant. Rare winter visitant; more 

 seen this winter (1884-85), than ever before. 



