BIRDS OF NOBTH AND MIDDLE AMEEIOA. 417 



(61.2); tail, 46.5-61.5 (49.1); culmen, 8-10 (9.1); tarsus, 16-17 (16.6); 

 middle toe, 9.5-10.5 (10). «^ 



Adult female.— hQwgth. (skins), 100-112 (107); wing, 53.5-60.5 

 (58.4); tail, 43.5-48.5 (46.2); culmen, 9-10 (9.7); tarsus, 16-17 (16.4); 

 middle toe, 9.5-10 (9.7).'' 



Pacific coast district, from northern California (Sonoma County) to 

 Prince William Sound and head of Lynn Canal, Alaska; east to 

 Montana (Great Falls). 



Parus rufescens Townsend, Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., vii, pt. ii, 1837, 190 (Co- 

 lumbia E.; type in coll. U. S. Nat. Mus. ). — Audubon, Orn. Biog., iv, 1838, 

 371, pi. -353; Synopsis, 1839, 80; Birds Am., oct. ed., ii, 1841, 158, pi. 129.— 

 NuTTALL, Man. Orn. U. S. and Can., 2d ed., 1840, 267.— Oassin, Illustr. 

 Birds CaL, Tex., etc., 1853, 18, part.— Baihd, Eep. Pacific E. E. Surv., 

 ix, 1858, 394, part (Fort Steilacoom and Fort Vancouver, Washington; 

 Columbia E. ) ; Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, no. 295, part; Eeview Am. Birds, 

 1864, 83, part (Chiloweyuck, Camp Kootenay, Fort Vancouver, Simiahmoo, 

 and Fort Steilacoom, Washington; Columbia E. ). — Cooper and Suckley, 

 Eep. Pacific E. E. Surv., xii, pt. ii, 1860, 194, part (Steilacoom, etc., Wash- 

 ington). — Sclatbe, Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 14 (Fort Steilacoom). — D all and 

 Bannister, Trans. Chicago Ac. Sci., i, 1869, 280 (Sitka, Alaska). — Cooper, 

 Am. Nat., iii, 1869, 75 (Montana); Orn. Cal., 1870, 47, part.— Coues, Check 

 List, 1873, no. 34, part; 2d ed., 1882, no. 50; Birds N. W., 1874, 22, part.— 

 Baird, Brewer, and Eidgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, i, 1874, 104, part, pi. 7, 

 fig. 6.— Henshaw, Orn. Eep. Wheeler's Surv., 1879, 288 (w. side of Cascade 

 Eange, Oregon). — Eidgway, Nom. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 46. — Gadow, Cat. 

 Birds Brit. Mus., viii, 1883, 34, part (Alaska; w. side Eocky Mts. ; Vancouver 

 I.; Upper Klamath L., Oregon).— American Ornithologists' Union, Check 

 List, 1886, no. 741. — Anthony, Auk, iii, 1886, 171 (Washington Co., Oregon; 

 descr. nest) .—Townsend, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., x, 1887, 229 (Mount Shasta, 

 California).— Fannin, Check List Birds Brit. Col., 1891, 44 (w. side of 

 Cascade Eange). — Merrill (J. C. ), Auk, xv, 1898, 21 (Fort Sherman, Idaho; 

 resident). — Geinnell (>T.), Auk, xv, 1898, 130 (Sitka, Alaska). — Kobbe, 

 Bull. Cooper Orn. Club, i, 1899, 84 (Cape Disappointment, Washington; 

 habits; descr. nest and eggs). — Fisher ( \V. K.), Condor, ii, 1900, 138 (Mount 

 St. Helena, Napa Co., California); iv, 1902, 135 (redwood belt, Humboldt 

 and Del Norte counties). — Chapman, Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., iii, 1900, 153 

 (coast British Columbia). — Bishop, North Am. Fauna, no. 19, 1900, 93 

 (Haines, Skagway, and Glacier, Alaska). — Eathbun (S.'F.), Auk, xix, 1902, 

 140 (Seattle, Washington, resident). — Bailey (Florence, M.), Handb. Birds 

 W. U. S., 1902, 459. 



Plarus] rufescens Henshaw, Orn. Eep. Wheeler's Surv., 1879, 288 (w. side of 

 Cascade Eange, Oregon). — Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 267. — 

 Eidgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 564. 



[Paras] rufescens Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 232, no. 3358. — Coues, Key N. Am. 

 Birds, 1872, 81, part. . 



Parus rufescens rufescens Grinnell (J.), Pacific Coast Avifauna, no. 3, June 25, 

 1902, 71. 



\_Parus rufescens'] a. rufescens Eidgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., i. May 22, 1879, 

 486 (synonymy). 



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