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FAM. PARIDA 
Psaltripavus santarttae Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. Vol. 10, p. 697 (Oct. 1888) {Santa Rita Mts , S. Arizona). 
Hab. S. W. Texas, S. New Mexico, southern Arizona (Chiricahua, Huachuca and Santa Rita Mts.), 
southward into North Sonora and Chihuahua. 
. Psaltriparus plumbeus plumbeus (Baird). 
Psaliria plumbea Baird, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sc. Philad. Vol. 7, p. 118 (1854) (Little Colorado River, Arizona). 
Fig. Baird, Birds N. America, 1860, p. 398, pl. 33, f. 2. 
Hab. Arid interior districts of western United States, north to eastern Oregon and south-western 
Wyoming, east to Colorado and S. W. Texas, west to W. Nevada and S. E. California. 
. Psaltriparus plumbeus cecaumenorum Thayer & Bangs. 
Psaltriparus plumbeus cecaumenorum Thayer & Bangs, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. Vol. 19, p. 20 (1906) (Sierra de 
Antonez, Central Sonora}. 
Hab. North Central Sonora; N. Chihuahua (?) 
. Psaltriparus minimus minimus (Townsend). 
Parus minimus Townsend, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sc. Philad. Vol. 7, 1, p. 190 (1837) (Columbia River). 
Fig. Audubon, Birds America, ed. in-80, Vol. 2, 1841, pl. 130. 
Hab. West slope of coast mountains of Oregon, California and Lower California, north to the Columbia 
River. 
. Psaltriparus minimus saturatus Ridgway. 
Psaltriparus minimus saturatus Ridgway, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. Vol. 16, p. 109 (1903) (Mount Vernon, Washington). 
Hab. Vicinity of Puget Sound, Washington. 
. Psaltriparus minimus californicus Ridgway. 
Psaliriparus minimus californicus Ridgway, Proc. Biol. Soc, Wash. Vol. 2, p. 89 (1884) (Baird, Shasta Co., Cali- 
fornia). j 
Hab. Interior districts of Oregon and California. 
. Psaltriparus minimus grindz Ridgeway. 
Psaltriparus gyindae (Belding MS.) Ridgway, Proc, U. S. Nat. Mus. Vol. 6, p. 155 (1883) (Laguna, Lower Cali- 
fornia). 
Hab. Cape St. Lucas district of Lower California. 
3. SUBFAM. REMIZINA= ? 
THE PENDULINE TITS 
This group comprises the so-called Penduline Tits, small-sized birds with slender, 
nearly straight, acute bill, even or emarginate tail, and the interorbital septum with a large 
central foramen, 
Characters. Bill slender, much shorter than head, with both culmen and gonys nearly 
straight, and acute tip. Nostrils basal, roundish, non-operculate, either exposed (Cephalopyrus) 
or concealed by antrorse, latero-frontal plumules. Rictal bristles obsolete, Wing rather long, 
pointed (Cephalopyrus) or rounded; third and fourth, or third, fourth and fifth, primaries longest; 
second primary variable in length, sometimes (Cefphalopyrus) nearly as long as third, sometimes 
conspicuously shorter, but always longer than seventh; first primary also variable in length, some- 
times (Cephalopyrius) exceedingly small, about halfas long as primary coverts, sometimes distinctly 
