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Coloration. Dull brown above, sometimes rather greyish on head; beneath buffy or 
pale cinnamomeous, obsoletely streaked with greyish on throat and chest; plumage very lax and 
solt, pileum slightly crested. Sexes alike, 
Geographical Distribution. California and Oregon, Western United States, 
Observations. Although the characters of the single genus are mainly intermediate be- 
tween those of the Paridae (Yits) and Troglodytidae (Wrens) it cannot be referred to either of 
thenr, and constitutes a rather isolated type among the Oscines. From the investigations of 
F. A, Lucas 1) and Rk. W. Shufeldt 2) it would seem that the Wren-Tits, in osteological struc- 
ture, come nearest to Psaltriparus. 
Habits and Nidification. The members of the genus are terrestrial birds, living in 
shrubberies of hill- and mountain slopes, The male is said to have a very sweet, trilling song. 
The cup-shaped nest is placed, in low bushes, on or near the ground and contains three to five, 
uniform pale blue eggs. 
Monotypic. One species with four subspecies. 
GENUS CHAMZEA GAMBEL 
1847. Chamzea Gambel, Proc. Acad. Nat. Se. Philad. Vol. 3, p. 154 (Sp. un. : Chamaea fasciata Gambel). 
Characters. The same as those of the family. 
KEY TO THE SUBSPECIES OF CHAMAZA FASCIATA 
1. Darker : the bach etc. sepia brown or sooty, the under parts ruddy cinnamon.) . . . . . . . + . 2. 
— Paler : the back etc. cleaver, more grevish brown, the under parts pale buffv-or 
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». Darker : the back dark sepia brown or sooty, the under parts deeper vinaceous or 
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— Paler: the back clearer septa brown, the under parts lighter vinaceous cinnamon, 2. C. FASCIATA KUFULA. 
3. Darker : the back browner under parls, deeper cinnamomeous. . . . . « . I. C. PASCIATA FASCIATA. 
- Paler : the back more greyish, under parts paler, more buffy. . . . . . . 4. C. FASCIATA HENSHAW1. 
|. Chameea fasciata fasciata (Gambel). 
Parus fasciatus Gambel, Proc. Acad, Nat. Sc. Philad. Vol. 2, p. 265 (1845) (California; tvpe in U.S. Nat Mus. 
Wash. stated by Ridgway to belong to the present form; cfr. Ridgw., Birds North & Middle America, 
Vol. 3, 1904, p. 687). 
Chamaea fasciata intermedia Grinnell, Condor, Vol. 2, p. 86 (1900) (Palo Alto, Santa Clara Co., California). 
Vig. Journ, Acad. Nat. Sc. Philad. (2 ser.), Vol. 1, 1847, pl. 8, fig. 3. 
Hab. Eastern and southern shores of San Francisco Bay, and Lower Sacramento Valley, in the counties 
Santa Clara, Alameda, Contra Costa, San Joaquin, Sacramento, etc. 
1) Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. Vol. 13, 1890, p. 337-345, pl. 27. 
2) Journal. of. Morph. Vol. 3, p. 475-502. 
