BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 415 



Paras hudsonicus eolumbianus Rhoads, Auk, x, Jan., 1893, 23 (Field, British 

 Columbia; coll. S. N. Rhoads), 331 (Field, Eagle Pass, and Toad Mt., Brit- 

 ish Columbia; St. Marys Lakes, n. Montana; crit., etc.). — Ameeican Orni- 

 thologists' Union, Check List,, 2d ed., 1895, no. 740&. — Ridgway, Man. N. 

 Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1896, 611.— Brooks, Auk, xvii, 1900, 107 (e. British 

 Columbia, w. to Nicola). — Chapman, Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., xvi, 1902, 244, 

 245 (Homer, Cook Inlet, Alaska, to British Columbia; crit.; diagnosis). — 

 Bailey (Florence M.) Hand,b. Birds W. U. S., 1902, 459. 



Flams'] {Poeoih) hudsonicus columhiqmus Hellmaye, Tierreich, 18 Lief., Mar., 

 1903, 72. 



Parus hudsonicus (not of Forster) Osgood, North Am. Fauna, no. 21, 1901, 80 

 (Tyonek, Hope, Fort Kenai, etc.. Cook Inlet, Alaska; crit.). 



PENTHESTES HUDSONICUS LITTORALIS (Bryant). 

 ACADIAN CHICKADEE. 



Similar to P. h. hudsonicus, but smaller and with the upper parts 

 slightly browner. 



Adult male.— IjQngVb. (skins), 111-129 (122.5); wing, 58.5-66.5 (63.9); 

 tail, 54.5-64.5 (60.6); culmen, 8-9 (8.6); tarsus, 15.5-17.5 (16.9); mid- 

 dle toe, 8.5-9.5 (9.2)'.« 



Adndt female.— length (skins), 117.5-127 (122.1); wing, 59-63 

 (60.8); tail,N56-61.5 (59.1); culmen, 8.5-9.5 (8.7); tarsus, 16-17 (16.4); 

 middle toe, 8.5-9 (8.8).* 



Southeastern British Provinces (southern Labrador, Quebec, New 

 Brunswick, Nova Scotia, etc.) and extreme northeastern United 

 States, Maine, mountains of New Hampshire, Vermont, and northeast- 

 ern New 'York (Lewis County); casually or irregularlj^ southward to 

 Massachusetts (numerous records), Rhode Island (near Providence), 

 and Connecticut (New Haven). 



Parus hudsonicus (not of Forster) Audubon, Orn. Biog., ii, 1834, 534, part, pi. 

 194; Synopsis, 1839, 79, part; Birds Am., oct. ed., ii, 1841, 155, part, pi. 128.— 

 Cassin, lUustr. Birds, Cal., Tex., etc., 1853, 18, part. — Baird, Rep. Pacific 

 R. R. Su'rv., ix, 1858, 395, part; Review Am. Birds, 1864, 82, part (Nova 

 Scotia). — CouEs, Check List, 1873, no. 33, part; 2d ed., 1882, no. 49, part — 

 Baied, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, i, 1874, 105, part, pi. 

 7, fig. 7. — Brewster, Am. Nat., vi, 1872, 306 (Concord, Massachusetts, 1 

 spec, Oct. 30, 1870); Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, iii, 1878, 20 (descr. young); vi, 

 ■ 1881, 54 (Concord, Massachusetts, 1 spec, Oct. 7, 1880).— Merriam,, Bull. 

 Nutt. Orn. Club, i, 1876, 52 (New Haven, Connecticut, 1 spec, Nov. 13, 

 1875); vi, 1881, 226 (Lewis Co., n. e. New York; breeding?).— Beewer. 

 Proc Bost. Soc. N. H., xix, 1878, 302 (New England records).— Spelman, 

 Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, vi, 1881, 114 (Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1 spec, 

 Dec. 31, 1880).— Jencks, Bull. Nutt' Orn. Club, vi, 1881, 54 (near Provi- 

 dence, Rhode Island, 1 spec, Nov. 1, 1880).— Chamberlain, Bull. Nutt. 

 Orn. Club, viii, 1883, 10 (Edmundston and St. John, New Brunswick, 

 breeding); Canad. Nat., iii, 215-217 (biography); Auk, iv, 1887, 261 (St. 



« Twelve specimens. 6 Ten specimens. 



