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Highlands of Mexico, from States of Oaxaca (La Parada, etc.), 

 Vera Cruz (Orizaba, Las Vigas, Jalapa, etc.), and Puebla (Teziutlan) 

 northwestward to southern Arizona (Chiricahua Mountains). 



Parus meridionalis (not of Lilljeborg, 1852) Sclatek, Proc. Zool. Soc. Loud., 

 1856, 293 (ElJacale,as. Mexico; coll. P. L. Sclater); 1857, 81 (crit.); 1858, 

 299 (La Parada, Oaxaca); 1859, 363 (Jalapa, Vera Cruz); Cat. Am. Birds, 

 1862, 14 (La Parada).— Baird, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 392 (El 

 .Tacale); Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, no. 292; Review Am. Birds, 1864, 81 

 (Orizaba, Vera Cruz). — Sumichrast, Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H., i,' 1869, 544 

 (Moyoapam, near Orizaba). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, 

 i, 1880, 57.— Brewster, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, vi, 1881, 252 (Chiricahua , 

 Mts., s. Arizona) ; vii, 1882, 79 (do., alt. 7,000-10,000 ft.).— Ridgway, Nom. 

 N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 43; Proc. V. S. Nal). Mus., ix, 1886, 134 (Teziutlan, 

 Puebla; crit. ) .— CouEs, Check List, 2d ed., 1882, no. 879 (p. 135); Key, 2d 

 ed., 1884, 266.— Gadow, Cat. Birds, Brit. Mus., viii, 1883, 46.— American 

 Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 1886, no. 737. — Ferrari-Perez, Proc. 

 U. 8. Nat. Mus., ix, 1886, 134 (Teziutlan, Puebla).— Allen, Bull. Am. Mus., 

 N. H., V, 1893, 41 (Tatuaca, etc., n. Chihuahua). — Chapman, Bull. Am. 

 Mus. N. H., ix, 1898, 38 (Las Vigas, Vera Cruz, 8,000 ft.; notes). 



[Parus] merid-ionalis Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 4. 



P[arM.s] meridionalix Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, i, 1874, 

 94.— CouES, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 266.— Ridgway, Man. N. Am. 

 Birds, 1887, 562. 



P[arus\ sdateri Kleinschmidt, Journ. fiir. Orn., xlv, Apr., 1897, 133, in text (to 

 replace Parus meridionalis Sdater, preoccupied). 



Par-US scZoieri Nelson, Auk, xv, 1898, 160 (note on specific name). — American 

 Ornithologists' Union Committee, Auk, xvi, 1899, 126. — Bailey (Florence 

 M.), Handb. Birds W. U. S., 1902, 458. 



P[arus] {Poecile) sdateri Hellmayr, Tierreich, 18 Lief., Mar., 1903, 52. 



PENTHESTES GAMBELI (Ridgway). 

 mOITNTAIN CHICKADEE. 



Similar to P. sdateri but paler (especially color of sides and flanks) 

 and with a white superciliary stripe. 



Adults in spring and summer. — Pileum (including postocular and 

 upper half of loral regions) hindneck, part of malar region, chin, 

 throat, and upper chest uniform deep black, the first broken by a nar- 

 row superciliary stripe of white;* sides of head and neck between the 

 black areas white; back, scapulars, lesser wing-coverts, rump, and 

 upper tail-coverts plain, deep olive-gray, or mouse gray; wings and 

 tail darker gray with paler gray edgings; median portion of lower 

 chest, breast, and abdomen dull white; sides, flanks, and under tail- 

 coverts pale olive-gray; bill black; iris brown; legs and feet dusky 

 (bluish gray in life). 



« Probably in State of Vera Cruz or in Puebla; possibly JacaM, Hidalgo. 

 S Narrower and less distinct in worn midsummer plumage, in which there is a 

 series of narrow white streaks rather than a continuous stripe. 



