BIRDS "of NOKTH AND MIDDLE AMBRIOA. 403 



Adult male. -Length (skins), 110.6-136.5 (118); wing, 60-65 (61.9); 

 tail, 53.5-t58 (56.5); culmen, 9-10 (9.3); tarsus, 16-^17.5 (16.9); middle 

 toe, 9.5-11 (10.4)«. 



Adtdt female.— Liength. (skins), 113.5-121 (119.5); wing, 68-61.5 

 (59.6); tail, 63-57.5 (56); culmen, 9-10 (9.6); tarsus, 16.5-17 (16.5); 

 middle toe, 10-10.5 (10.2)«. 



Humid northwest coast district, from the Columbia River to British 

 Columbia (Port Moody; Agassiz). 



Parus atricapillusf (not Paras atricapillus Linnseus) Newberry, Rep. Pacific R. R. 

 Surv., X, pt. iv, 1857, 79 (California, Oregon). 



Parus atricapillus Allen, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., ii, 1871, 261, .part (crit. ). — 

 Gadow, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., viii, 1883, 44, part. 



Parus ocddentalis Baird, Rep. Pacfic R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 391 (Shoalwater Bay, 

 Washington; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.); Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, no. 291; 

 Review Am. Birds, 1864, 81. — Cooper and Suckley, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., 

 xii, pt. ii, 1860, 194 (Puget Sound and Fort Vancouver, Washington; Willa- 

 mette Valley, Oregon). — Sclater, Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 14 (Shoalwater 

 Bay).— Elliot, Illustr. New and Unfig. N. Am. Birds, i, 1869, pi. 8.— 

 Cooper, Orn. Cal., 1870, 45. 



\_Parus atricapillus'\ Var. ocddentalis Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 81. 



Parus atricapillus . . var. ocddentalis Coues, Check List, 1873, no. 31c. 



Parus atricapillus, var. ocddentalis Baikd, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. 

 Birds, i, 1874, 101. 



Parus var. ocddentalis Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, i, 

 1874, pi. 7, fig. 3. 



(?) Parus atricapillus ocddentalis Ridgway, Bull. Essex Inst., vi, Oct., 1874, 172 

 (Sacramento Valley, California). — Evermann, Auk, iii, 1886, 186 (Ventura 

 Co., California, rare winter resid. ). 



Parus atricapillus ocddentalis Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., iii, Aug. 24, 1880, 

 168; Nom. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 416. — American Ornithologists' Union, 

 Check List, 1886, no. 7356.— Fannin, Check List Birds Brit. Col., 1891, 44 

 (west side of Cascade Range). — Chapman, Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., iii, 1900, 153 

 (coast British Columbia).— Rathbun (S. F.), Auk, xix, 1902, 140 (Seattle, 

 Washington, resident). 



Plarusl a[tricapillus'] ocddentalis CouBS, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 266. — 

 Bailey (Florence M.), Handb. Birds W. U, S., 1902, 458. 



Plarus'] atricapillus ocddentalis Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 563. 



[Parus atricapillus'] y. ocddentalis Ridgway, Orn. 40th Parallel, 1877, 412 

 (synonymy). 



P\_arus} (Poedle) atricapillus ocddentalis Hellmayr, Tierreich, 18 Lief., Mar., 

 1903, 56. 



PENTHESTES CAROLINENSIS CAROLINENSIS (Audubon). 

 CAROLINA CHICEADED. 



Similar to P. atricapillus atrioapilhis but decidedly smaller, with 

 relatively shorter tail and larger bill, darker coloration, with little if 

 any white on wings and tail, and with the black throat-patch abruptly 

 defined posteriorly. 



«Ten specimens. 



