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NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



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

 them on the sununit of the Tejon Pass. He tliinks their notes and hahits 

 very simiLar to those of the africoiii/fus. Dr. Suckley obtained a single 

 specimen at Fort Dalles, but regarded it as extremely rare in that locality. 



Dr. Woodhouse found it quite abundant 

 in the iSan Francisco Mountains of New 

 Mexico, where it was feeding; among tlie 

 tall pines in company with kindred 

 species. 



Mr. lUdgway found this species in 

 groat abundance among the jiines on 

 the eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada 

 JMountains, as well as in all the exten- 

 sive cedar-groves on the mountains to 

 the eastward. Around Carson City this 

 species was found tlnougliout the win- 

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

 guisliable from F. carolincmis. The notes are described as louder and more 

 distinct, though their calls in sj)ring are rather less clearly articulated. 



Pnrliif wnntanus. 



Farus atricapillus, Linn. 



EASTERN CHICKADEE ; BLACK-CAFFED TITMOUSE. 



Pnrnn atrimpillii.i, I, inn. Syst. Xnt. I, I'titi, 341 (liaseil on Purus atricapillus cunadeiusis, 

 Blil.s,s().N, 111, .I;".;!, tal). xxi.x, fig. 1). — Haikd, Birds N. Am. Isr.S, 3iM) ; Reviow, 80. 

 — Sci.ATKl!, Ciital. 1861, l;!, no. 80. — Dai.L & IUnnlstku (Alaska). — Sa.mcki.s, 182. 

 Pircih- ii/rioi/iilli(, Hon. t'onsp. 1850, 230. Pants yiilicstris, Nrrr. Man. I, 1832, 79. 



Fijjurcil liy ArnrnoN", Wii.sus, etc. 



Sr. CiiAH. Scfoiid i|iiill a.s loiim ns tlio sci'niidaric.*. Tail vorv slifrhtly rounded ; lateral 

 feathers about .10 shorter than middle. Back brownisli-ashy. Top of head and throat 

 blaek, sides of liead between them \vhit(!. Beneath whitish; browni.sh-white on the sides. 

 Sid('.< of outer tail-feathers, some of i)riinaries, and secondaries conspicuously margined 

 with white. Lenj;tli, 5.00 ; wiiijr, 2.50: tail, 2..50. 



IIab. Eastern North America, north of ,'il)th parallel. 



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

 fifth and sixth successively a little shorter ; the tliird is altout eipial to, or a 

 litth' shorter than, tlie eiglitli ; the second is a very little longer than the 

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

 rest successively ii little shorter. The greatest difl'erence in length of tuil- 

 feiithers amounts to .30 of an inch. 



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

 down on the sides to the lo'ver level of the eye, is pure black, idthough the 

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



