96 NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



rouiuling the Volcano in the southern mines, and suhsequently met with 

 them on the sunnnit of the Tejon Pass. He tliinks their notes and habits 

 very similar to those of the atrUainlhifi. Dr. Suckley obtained a single 

 specimen at Fort Dalles, but rejj^arded it as extremely mre in that locality. 



_^ Dr. Woodhouse found it quite abundant 



^^^^ ^ ^ ^ _ in the ISan Francisco Mountains of New 



M/t^^^^^^- ~ Mexico, where it was feeding among the 



^^j^^jl^^H^^^. tall pines in company with kindred 



^^2£g^B^[^H^^^^^^ species. 



^^^BKH^^^f ^^^^ Mr. Iiidgway found this species in 



-^^^^^B^^ great abundance among the pines on 



_%^Jfp»-_ J ^^ the eastern sloix; of the Sierra Nevada 



^j|\ ^lountains, as well as in all the exten- 



\ \ sive cedar-groves on the mountains to 



parus Luanus. ^^^^ castward. Arouud C^irson City this 



species was found throughout the win- 

 ter. In its manners and notes, particularly the latter, it was hardly distin- 

 guishable from P. carol iiioisis. The notes are described as louder and more 

 distinct, though their calls in spring are rather less clearly articulated. 



Farus atricapillus, Lixn. 



EASTERN CHICKABEE ; BLACK-CAPPED TITHOirSE. 



Pnrus ntricopiViui, Lixx. Syst. Nat. I, 1766, 341 (based on Pants atricapillus cnnadeiisiSj 

 Brissox, III, .')i>3, tal). xxix, Rg. 1). — Baiud, Birds N. Am. 1858, 390; Review, 80. 

 — ScLATER, Catal. 1861, 13, no. SO. — Dall & Baxxister (Ala.ska). —Samuels, 182. 

 Pcecile alricapilla, B<»x. Consp. 1850, 230. Parus pal ustr is, NUTT. Mau. I, 1832, 79. 



Figured hy ArnuBox, Wilsox, etc. 



Sp. Char. Second i\\\\\\ as long as the secon<laries. Tail very slightly rounded ; lateral 

 feathers about .10 shorter than middle. Batk brownish-ashy. Top of head and throat 

 blac'k, sides of hea«l between them white. Beneath whitish; brownish-white on the sides. 

 Sides of outer tail-feathers, some of primaries, and secondaries conspicuously margined 

 with white. Length, 5.00; wing, 2.50; tail, 2.50. 



Hab. Eastern North America, north of 31)th parallel. 



In this species the first ([uill is spurious ; the fourth quill is longest ; the 

 fifth and sixth successively a little shorter ; the third is about ecpial to, or a 

 little shorter than, the eighth ; the second is a very little longer than the 

 secondaries. The tail is a little rounded, the innermost feather longest, the 

 rest successively a little shorter. The greatest difference in length of tail- 

 feathers amounts to .30 of an inch. 



The entire crown, from the bill to the upper part of the back, coming 

 down on the sides to the lower level of the eye, is pure black, although the 

 edge alone of the lower eyelid is of this color. A second black patch begins 



