PASSEEES— PARI D AE— PARUS MONTAN US. 



169 



search, but have less of the rapidity of movement and nervous energy which 

 characterize other members of this group. They are less noisy, too ; their 

 notes, though Chickadee-like, being weaker and fainter, and not infrequently 

 one may, when watching one or two of these birds, find himself surrounded 

 by a large number, which have silently closed in around while he was 

 wholly unconscious of their presence. They are strictly arboreal, sharing 

 only to a slight degree the terrestrial habits which are common to the other 

 Titmice, especially of this genus. * 



No. 



Sex. 



'93 



196 

 419 

 420 



424 



425 

 426 



4-7 



427A 



42S 



4-9 



5>3 



534 

 566 



974 



<?jun. 

 J tin. 

 c?jim. 

 9jun. 



J'jim. 

 <?jun. 

 9jun. 

 <?jun. 



Jjun. 

 9 ad. 



J nil. 



9jun. 



£ ad. 



Locality. 



Date. 



Rock Canon, Ariz , July 21. 1874 



do J do 



Bowie Agency, Ariz...! Aug. 16, 1S74 



do J do 



do I do 



■ do I Aug. 17, 1S74 



do ! do 



do. 

 do 

 do . 



do . 



do . 



Near Camp Crittenden, 

 Ariz. 



do 



do 



Near Camp Apache, Ariz 



do 



do 



do 



do 



do 



Aug. 27, 1S74 



Aug. 29, 1S74 



. ...do 



Oct. 9, 1S74 



Collector. 



W. Henshaw. 

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do . 

 . do. 

 . do. 



do. 



do . 



do. 



do. 



do. 



do. 



do. 



do. 



do . 

 do. 

 do. 



Wine 



2.52 

 2.40 

 2.62 



=•45 

 2 -57 

 2. 58 

 2.54 



?-S 2 

 2.60 

 2.65 

 2. 50 



2-55 

 2.45 



2-45 

 2.40 

 2.60 



lil. 



Bill. 



Tarsus. 



48 



o-35 



0.66 



45 



o-33 



0. 70 



55 



o-35 



0. 72 



3S 



0.32 



0.68 



47 



°-35 



0. 6S 



50 



o-35 



o-73 



5° 



o-35 



0. 68 



5S 



°-35 



o-57 



55 



o-33 



0. 67 



55 



o. 3 S 



0. 72 



47 



°. 33 



0.65 



5° 



o-33 



0,67 



36 



0.32 



0. 64 



3 s °- 35 



0.66 



40 0. 32 



0.65 



5° 



33 



0.69 



PAEUS MONTANUS, Gainb. 



Mountain Chickadee. 



Parus montanus,' GAMB., Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., April, 184.'J, 259. — Woodh., 

 Sitgreave's Exp. Zufii & Col. Eiv., 1854, 08. — Newb., P. E. II. Rep., vi, 

 JS57, 70.— 13d., Ives' Col. Exped., 1S57-5S, pt, iv, 0.— Id., Birds N. A., 1858, 

 394.— Xantus, Proc Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1859, 191 (Fort Tejon, Cal.).— 

 Heerjl, P. B. It. Eep., x, pt. iv, 1859, 42. — Henry, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 

 Phila., 1859, 107 (New Mexico). — Coop. & Suckl., P. E. E. Pep., xii, pt. 

 ii, 1800, 191.— Bn., Rev. Am. Birds, i, 1804, 82.— Cooper, Aid. Nat., iii, 

 1809,75 (Montana).— Stet., U. S. Geol. Sur v. Terr., 1870, 404.— Cooper, 

 Birds Cal., 1870, 40.— Aiken, Proc. Bost, Soc. Nat. Hist, xv, 1872, 195.— 

 Merriam, U. S. (ieol. Surv. Terr., 1872, 072.— COUES, Key N. A. Birds, 

 1872, 81. — Allen, Bull. Mas. Comp. Zool., iii, 1872, 174 (mountains of 

 Colorado).— Hensuaw, An. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y., xi, 1874, p. 2. — Id., 

 An. List Birds Utah, 1872, Wheeler's Exped., 1871, 40. — Yarrow & 



