1915 BIRDS OF CALIFORNIA 165 
Status—Common resident of Transition in the coast district south of Gol- 
den Gate and San Francisco Bay, from Presidio (Carriger, MS) to Little Sur 
River, Monterey County (Jenkins, Condor, vm, 1906, p. 129). Breeds east to 
the west shore of the south arm of San Francisco Bay, as near mouth of San 
Francisquito Creek near Palo Alto (J. Grinnell, MS). Has occurred casually 
east in autumn to Berkeley (J. Grinnell, Condor, xvi, 1914, p. 39), Haywards, 
Alameda County (Emerson, Condor, m, 1900, p. 19), and Gilroy, Santa Clara 
County (J. Grinnell, Auk, xxi, 1904, p. 380). 
516 (743) Psaltriparus minimus minimus (Townsend) 
Coast BusH-TIT 
Synonyms—Psaltriparus minimus californicus, part; Parus minimus; Acre- 
dula minima; Psaltria minima; Psaltria minimus californicus; Least Titmouse ; 
California Bush-tit, part. 
Status—Common resident of Upper Sonoran and low Transition zones in 
the coastal belt the whole length of the state: throughout the San Francisco Bay 
region, east to Mount Diablo, and to the north through the humid coast belt and 
ranges west of the Sacramento Valley to the Oregon line; south through the 
Santa Cruz district, and throughout the entire San Diegan district, to the Mex- 
ican line. Also on Santa Cruz Island (J. Mailliard, Bull. Cooper Orn. Club, 1, 
1899, p. 45). The easternmost records of this subspecies at the north are Calla- 
han, Siskiyou County, and Tower House, Shasta County; the easternmost in the 
San Diegan district, Fort Tejon, Kern County, Victorville, San Bernardino 
County (perhaps casual), and Cuyamaca Mountains, San Diego County. (See 
Swarth, Auk, xxxi, 1914, p. 510, pl. xt.) 
517 (7438a) Psaltriparus minimus californicus Ridgway 
CALIFORNIA BuSH-TIT 
Synonym—Psaltriparus minimus, part. 
Status—Common resident of the San Joaquin-Sacramento basin including 
the western foothills of the Sierra Nevada, in Upper Sonoran and lower Tran- 
sition zones, from the vicinity of Walker Pass, Kern County (Mus. Vert. Zool.) 
northward to Shasta Valley (C. H. Merriam, N. Amer. Fauna no. 16, 1899, p. 
132) ; also northeastward in the Modoc region to the head of the Pitt River basin 
on the west side of the Warner Mountains: Parker Creek and Sugar Hill, Modoe 
County (Mus. Vert. Zool.). Occurs also on the eastern slope of the southern 
Sierra Nevada in Inyo County (A. K. Fisher, N. Amer. Fauna no. 7, 1893, p. 
141), as at Carroll Creek (Mus. Vert. Zool.). This race occurs west in central 
California north of the Strait of Carquinez at least to Vacaville, Solano County 
(Mus. Vert. Zool.), and at the extreme north to Yreka, Siskiyou County. (See 
Swarth, Auk, xxxr, 1914, p. 516, pl. xt.) 
518 (744) Psaltriparus plumbeus (Baird) 
LEAD-COLORED BusH-tTIT 
Status—Common resident of arid Upper Sonoran along the desert ranges 
