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find it in all pine forests, as well as the more extensive of the piiion and 

 cedar woods on the interior ranges." Two specimens were collected by 

 him at Carson City. 



Psaltriparus pliunbeus Baird. — Lead-colored Tit. 



This bird has been noted by Mr. Ridgway as occurring at Carson City, 

 West Humboldt Mountains, where it was common in September, and 

 among the cedars on the Virginia Mountains in November, where it was 

 in company with Gray Titmice {Lophophanes inornatus). In the southern 

 portion of the State it has not yet been found, although Dr. Cooper thinks 

 it probable that some come down to the Colorado Valley along the east- 

 ern branches, where Dr. Kennerly found it ; still it is doubtful whether 

 this would bring it within the limits of the State. 



Psaltriparus melanotis (Hartl.) Bp. — Black-eared Tit. 



On the 4th of August, 1868, we saw near our camp on the eastern 

 slope of the Euby Mountains what was unquestionably a bird of this 

 species, since the black patch on the ear-coverts was distinctly visible. 

 Its restless movements made ineffectual our attempt to shoot it, and be- 

 fore we were prepared for another shot it disappeared among the cedar 

 trees and could not be found again. This we believe is the first known 

 instance of its occurrence within the limits of the United States, though 

 it has been obtained near our borders, and is a common bird of the high 

 mountain portions of Northern Mexico ; but it probably occurs in greater 

 or less numbers in suitable iDlaces throughout our southern Eocky Mount- 

 ains. — [Ridgicay.) 



Auriparus fiaviceps (Sundev.) Baird. — Yellow-headed Tit. 



This bird is mentioned as occurring at FortMojave, where Dr. Cooper 

 found it in the thickets of Algarobia. 



SITTID^. 



Sitta carolinensis aculeata (Cass.) Allen. — Slender-billed Nuthatch. 



This bird was not observed in any locality within the interior of the 

 State, and, as Mr. Eidgway states, is strictly confined to the elevated 

 coniferous regions, procuring several specimens near Carson City. 



Sitta canadensis Linn. — Eed-bellied Nuthatch. 



Like the preceding this species is confined to the dense pine regions. 

 Mr. Eidgway noticed it in the aspen groves along the streams in the 

 Upper Humboldt Valley in September, and late in the same month in 

 the Clover Mountains, at an altitude of nearly 11,000 feet. Lieutenant 

 Ives' party found it as far south as Fort Yuma, though this may have 

 been an exceptional find. 



