350 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



Penthestes carolinensis (Audubon). 

 Range. — Southeastern United States west to eastern Texas. 



a. Penthestes carolinensis carolinensis (Audubon). Carolina Chickadee. 



[736.] 

 Parus carolinensis Audubon, Orn. Biog., II, 1834, 341. (Near New 

 Orleans, La., or Charleston, S. C.) 

 Range. — Southeastern United States. Breeds in Carolinian and Austro- 

 riparian zones from central Missouri, Indiana, central Ohio, Pennsylvania 

 (sparingly), and central New Jersey, south to southeastern Louisiana, the 

 Gulf coast, and northern Florida. 



b. Penthestes carolinensis Sgilis (Sennett). Plumbeous Chickadee. [736a.] 



Parus carolinensis agilis Sennett, Auk, V, Jan., 1888, 46. (Bee Co., 

 Texas.) 

 Range. — Western part of the Lower Mississippi VaUey. Breeds in Lower 

 Austral Zone from northern Oklahoma to Refugio and Kendall counties, 

 Texas, and east to northwestern Louisiana. 



c. Penthestes carolinensis fmpiger (Bangs). Florida Chickadee. [7366.] 



Parus carolinensis impiger Bangs, Proc. N. Engl. Zool. Club, IV, March 

 16, 1903, 1. (Deep Creek, about 3 miles from Lake Ashby, Florida.) 



Range. — East central Florida. 



Penthestes sclSteri (Kleinschmidt). Mexican Chickadee. [737.] 



Parus sdateri Kleinschmidt, Joum. filr Orn., 1897, 92 (note). (El 

 Jacale, eastern Mexico.) 



Range. — Canadian and Transition zones in mountains of southern 

 Arizona and southwestern New Mexico east to Coahuila and south to 

 Michoacan and Oaxaca, Mexico. 



Penthestes gS,mbeli (Ridgway). 



Range. — Mountains of western North America from central British 

 Columbia to Lower California. 



a. Penthestes gambeli gambeli (Ridgway). Mountain Chickadee. [738.] 

 Parus gambeli Ridgway, in A. O. U. Check-List, 1886, 335. (About one 

 day's journey west of Santa F4, New Mexico.) 

 Range. — Canadian and Transition zones in mountains from central British 

 Columbia, west central Alberta, and east central Montana south to the 

 southern Sierra Nevada in California and mountains of Arizona, New Mexico, 

 and western Texas. 



