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fading, but I am inclined to regard it as analogous to the similar light mark- 
ings found in Melanerpes angustifrons and certain other Woodpeckers. 
The Ashy Titmouse appears to be strictly confined to the Cape Region, the 
bird found at San Pedro Martir, in the northern part of the Peninsula, being 
the closely related P. 7. griseus, according to Mr. Bryant, whose failure to de- 
tect any representative of the ¢nornatus group in the intermediate region makes 
it nearly certain that the habitat of cineraceus is quite cut off from that of its 
ally just mentioned. Indeed, its range appears to correspond closely, if not 
exactly, with that of the St. Lucas Nuthatch. Like the latter, it is.a bird of the 
pine forests which cover portions of the summit and upper slopes of the high 
mountains near the southern extremity of the Peninsula. Here, according to 
Mr. Belding, it is ‘common from 3,000 feet altitude upward.”’ On the Sierra 
de la Laguna Mr. Frazar found it quite as numerous in December as in May 
and June. None of the specimens killed at the latter season showed any indi- 
cations of being about to breed, and the eggs, like those of many other birds 
which inhabit these mountains, are probably not laid much before midsummer, 
Psaltriparus grindae Rivew. 
GRINDA’s BusuH-TIr. 
[Psaltriparus] minimus Cours, Key N. Amer. Birds, 1872, 81, 82, part (Pacif. 
coast). 
Psaltriparus minimus Cours, Check List, 1878, 11, no. 35, part; 2d ed., 1882, 29, no. 
53, part. RipGway, Nom. N. Amer. Birds (Buli. U. S. Nat. Mus., no. 21), 
1881, 14, no. 47, part. 
Psaltriparus grindue Ripcway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., VI. 1883, 155 (orig. descr. ; 
type from Laguna), 158, footnote (crit.; S. Lower Calif.), 347 (measure- 
ments) ; Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., II. 1884, 96 (a correction). BrLpinc, Proc. 
U.S. Nat. Mus., VI. 1883, 547 ( Victoria Mts.). 
Psaltriparus minimus grindae Ripeway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., VIII. 1885, 354. 
A. O. U., Check List, 1886, 337, no. 748b: Bryant, Proce. Calif. Acad. Sci., 
2d ser., II. 1889, 817 (San Francisco and Victoria Mts.) ; Zoe, II. 1891, 198 
(Victoria Mts.). Cours, Key N. Amer. Birds, 4th ed., 1894, 867 (descr. ; 
Lower Calif.). 
P.[saltriparus] minimus grindae Ripaway, Man. N. Amer. Birds, 2d ed., 1896, 565 
(descr ; s. portion of Lower Calif.). 
[Psaltriparus] grindae Duxsois, Synop. Avium, fasc. VII. 1901, 466 (Basse-Cali- 
fornie). 
The characters claimed for this form by Mr. Ridgway are so constantly pre- 
sented in the large series obtained by Mr. Frazar that I believe the bird to be 
a good species. The type, taken on February 2, was evidently in nuptial 
plumage. I can nowadd descriptions of the juvenal and first winter plumages. 
Tuvenal plumage: — (Male, No. 14,822, San José del Rancho, July 21, 1887). 
Differing from the adult in being ashier beneath, with a decided purplish 
