BIEDS OF NOBTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. ' 39,9 



41; Orn. Illinois, i, 1889, 80.— Gadow, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., viii, 1883, 

 44, part— BicKNELL, Auk, i, 1884, 135 (song period).— Palmer (W.), Auk, 

 ii, 1885, 304 (District Columbia, Mar. and Apr., 1885; common); Proc. 

 U. S. Nat. Mus., xiii, 1890, 265 (St. John, Newfoundland).— American 

 Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 1886, no. 735.— Cooke, Bird Migr. 

 Miss. Val., 1888, 277, part (w. Iowa, e. Kansas, and "southern Illinois," 

 northward; St. Louis, Missouri, Mar. 20-26.— Evermann, Auk, vi, 1889, 

 29 (Carroll Co., Indiana; resident).— Pindar, Auk, vi, 1889, 316 (Fulton 

 Co., Kentucky; rare winter resid. ) . — Goss, Hist. Birds Kansas, 1891, 631, 

 part (e. Kansas; mid. and w. Kansas ?). — Dwight, Auk, x, 1893, 14 

 (Prince Edward I., breeding) .—Todd, Auk, x, 1893, 41, 46 (Indiana and 

 Clearfield counties, w. Pennsylvania; breeding). — Butler, Birds Indiana, 



1897, 1136 (resident south to Tippecanoe, Carroll, and "Wayne counties; 

 south in winter to Monroe Co.). — Hadley, Proc. Ind. Ac. Sci., 1897, 196 

 (Eichmond, Wayne Co., Indiana; common resid.). — Sanderson, Auk, xv, 



1898, 150 (food, habits, etc.).— Bigelow, Auk, xix, 1902, 30 (Labrador, 

 wooded districts).— Preble, N. Am. Fauna, no. 22, 1902, 128 (Moose Fac- 

 tory, Ontario). 



P[oecila] atricapiUus Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 230. 



P[oecile] atricapilla Cabanis, Mus. Hein., i, 1850, 91. 



Poecile atricapiUus CouES, Proc. Essex Inst., vi, 1868, 279. 



P^ariis] (Poeaile) atricapiUus atricapiUus Hellmayr, Tierreich, 18 Lief., Mar., 



1903, 55. 

 Parus palustris (not of Linnaeus) Nuttall, Man. Orn. U. S. and Can., i, 1832, 79. 

 Plarusl atricapiUus Maximii,! AN, Journ. fiir Orn., 1858, 119, part. — Nelson, Bull. 



Essex Inst, viii, 1876, 95, 152 (n. e. Illinois, resident). — Coues, Key N. Am. 



Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 265.— Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 563. 

 l^Parus atricapiUus'] var. atricapiUus Baird, Brewer, and Ridgivay, Hist. N. Am. 



Birds, i, 1874, 94. 

 Parus atrocapiUus Ulrey and Wallace, Proc. Ind. Ac. Sci., 1895, 159 (Wabash 



Co., Indiana, abt. winter resid. ). 



Western "Colony." 



Parus ocddentalis (not of Baird) Bendire, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., 1877, 112 

 (Camp Harney, Oregon, winter). 



Parus atricapiUus ocddentalis Brewster, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, vii, 1882, 228 

 (Walla Walla, e. Washington; crit. ). 



Parus atricapiUus Merrill (J. C. ), Auk, xv, 1898, 20 (Fort Sherman, Idaho, 

 resident). — Brewster, Auk, xv, 1898, 20 (Fort Sherman, Idaho; crit.). — 

 Bailey (Florence M.), Handb. Birds W. U. S., 1902, 457, part (Fort Sher- 

 man, Idaho). 



Parus atricapiUus septenirionalis (not P. septentrionalis Harris) Chapman, Bull. 

 Am. Mus. N. H., iii, 1900, 153 (Ashcroft; int. British Columbia; crit). — 

 Fannin, Check List Birds Brit. Col., 1891, 44 (east of Cascade range). 



PENTHESTES ATRICAPILLUS SEPTENTRIONALIS (Harris). 



lONG-TAILEI) CHICKADEE, 



Similar to I^. a. atricapilkis, but larger, with wing and tail averag- 

 ing decidedly longer; coloration paler, with whitish edgings to greater 

 wing-coverts, secondaries and lateral rectrices broader, more con- 

 spicuous. 



Aduli mafe.— Length (skins), li!4.5-140.5 (131.2); wing, 65.5-73 



