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parts very pale brownish gray or dull grayish white, more buflfy gray- 

 ish on sides, flanks, and under tail-coverts; auricular region more or 

 less barred or mottled with darker brownish gray; bill dusky horn 

 color (more grayish in life), with paler tomia; iris brown; legs and 

 feet dusky (bluish gray in life). 



Young. — Similar in coloration to adults, but larger wing-coverts, 

 indistinctly paler and somewhat buflpy at tips, and texture of plumage 

 distinctly different. 



Adult 7nale.—lje.ngt}i (skins), 121-131 (127.2); wing, 66.5-71.5 (68.7); 

 tail, 54-69 (57.1); culmen, 10.5-11.5 (11.2); tarsus, 20.5-21.5 (21.1); 

 middle toe. 12-13.5 (12.9).« 



Achilt f0mMle.—LBr\^ih (skins), 110-185 (124.9); wing, 63-70 (67.8); 

 tail, 50-60.5 (55.8); culmen, 10.5-12 (11.1); tarsus,' 19.5-22 (20.5); 

 middle toe, 12-13 (12.4).* 



California in general (in oak woods) north of San Bernardino 

 Mountains and Colorado Desert; north to Mendocino and Siskiyou 

 counties; south to Santa Barbara, Ventura, and Kern counties;" east 

 to western slope of Sierra Nevada. 



Farm inomatus Gameel, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., ii, Aug., 1845, 265 (near Mon- 

 terey, California); iii, 1846, 154; Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci., 2d ser., i, 1847, pi. 

 8, fig. 2.— Gadow, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., viii, 1883, 32, part (California).— 

 American Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 1886, no. 733, part. — Town- 

 send (C. H.), Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., x, 1887, 228 (Eed Bluff, etc., u. Cali- 

 fornia; descr. nest). — Fisher (A. K. ), North Am. Fauna, no. 7, 1893, 138 

 (Oajon Pass, Walkers Basin, etc., California). — Bailey (Florence M. ), 

 Handb. Birds W. U. S., 1902, 456. 



P^arusl inomatus Gambel, Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., i, 1847, 35, (near Mon- 

 terey).— Eidgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 561. 



Parus inomatus inomatus Grinnell (J.), Pacific Coast Avifauna, no. 3, June 

 25, 1902, 70, part. 



Lophophanes inomatus Baird, in Stansbury's Eep. Great Salt Lake, 1852, 332 

 (California); Eep. Pacific E. E. Surv., ix, 1858, 386, part (Californian local- 

 ities); Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, no. 287, part; Eeview Am. Birds, 1864, 78, 

 part (Californian localities). — Cassin, Illustr. Birds Cal., Tex., etc., 1853, 

 19. — Heermann, Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 2d ser., ii, 1853, 263 (at least 

 in part); Eep. Pacific E. E. Surv., x, pt. iv, 1859, 42 (California). — Xantus, 

 Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci., Phila., xi, 1859, 191 (Fort Tejon, California) .—Scla- 

 TER, Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 14 (Sacramento, California). — Cooper, Orn. Cal., 

 1870, 42, part.— Eidgway, Bull. Essex Inst., v, 1873, 189, part (crit.); Nom. 

 N. Am. Birds, 1881, 38, part.— Coues, Check List, 1873, no. 28, part; 2d ed., 

 1882, no. 41, part; Birds N. AV., 1874, 20, part (in synonymy); Birds Col. 

 Val., 1878, 114, part. — Baird, Brewer, and Eidgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, 

 i, 1874, 91, part, pi. 6, fig. 3.— Hbnshaw, Am. Eep. U. S. Geol. Surv. W. 

 100th Merid., 1875, 229 (Santa Barbara (Fort Tejon, Walkers Basin, etc., 

 California).— Cooper (AV. A.), Bull. Nutt Orn. Club, iii, 1878, 68, 69 (Santa 

 Cruz, California; breeding habits). — Brewster, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, iv, 

 1879, 39 (Oakdale, Stanislaus Co., California; descr. young). — Beldinq, 

 P^oc. U. S. Nat. Mus., i, 1879, 400 (Stockton, Calaveras Co., etc.; descr. nest 

 and eggs). 



o Ten specimens. >> Also northern portion of Los Angeles County. 



