354 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



Genus AURIPARUS Baird. 



Auriparus Baird, Review Amer. Birds, Aug., 1864, 85. Type, by orig. 

 desig., ^githalus flaviceps Sundevall. 



AuripSras flS,viceps (Sundevall). 



Range. — Desert regions of southwestern United States and Mexico. 



a. Auriparus flaviceps flaviceps (Sundevall). Verdin. [746.] 

 Mgithalus flaviceps Sundevall, Ofv. Vet.-Akad. Forh., VII, 1850, 



129 (note). (California.) 



Range. — Sonoran desertB of southwestern United States and Mexico 

 from southern California, southern Nevada, southwestern Utah, southeastern 

 New Mexico, and southern Texas south to northern Lower California, north- 

 em Sonora, Durango, Coahuila, and Taraaulipas. 



b. Auriparus flaviceps lamproc^phalus Oberholser. Cape Verdin. [746a.] 



Auriparus flaviceps lamprocephalus Oberholser, Auk, XIV, Oct., 1897, 

 391. (Cape San Lucas, Lower California.) 



Range. — Lower Sonoran Zone in the southern half of Lower California 

 south of latitude 29° 30' (Yubay) and southwestern Sonora. 



Family CHAM.a:iD.ffl. Wren-Tits. 



Genus CHAMiEA Gambel. 



Ckamcea Gambel, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., Ill, 1847, 154. Type, 

 by orig. desig., Parus fasciatus Gambel. 



Chamsea fasci&ta (Gambel). 



Range. — Pacific coast from Oregon south to northern Lower 

 California and east to interior of California. 



a. Chamsa fasciata fasciata[_'(GAMBEL). Wren- Tit. [742.] 



Parus fasciatus Gambel, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., II, 1845, 265. 

 (California.) 



Range. — Upper Sonoran Zone on the eastern and southern shores of San 

 Francisco Bay and adjacent Santa Clara Valley. 



