428 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



(Teziutlan, Puebla; crit.; descr. female).— Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.- 

 Am., Aves, i, 1880, 58, part (Valley of Mexico, alpine reg. Vera Oruz, and 

 Cayuilalpam, Mexico; SoloW, Godines, Volcan de Fuego, and San Lucas, 

 Guatemala).— Salvin, Cat. Strickland Coll., 1882, 66 (Guatemala).— Coubs, 

 Check List, 2d ed., 1882, no. 55. — Amekican Ornithologists' Union, Check 

 List, 1886, no. 745, part.— Ferbahi-Peeez, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., ix, 1886, 

 134 (Teziutlan, Puebla).— Chapman, Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., x, 1898, 38 

 (Las Vigas, Vera Cruz, 8,000 ft.). 



Aeredula melanoiis Gadow, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., viii, 1883, 55 (La Parada, 

 Oaxaca ; ' ' California " ) . 



Psaliriparus personatus BoTSAPA-RTB, Compt. Rend., xxxi, Sept., 1850, 478. 

 (Mountains of southern Mexico.) 



PsaUria personata Westeemann, Bijdrag. Dierk., 1851, 16, plate. 



Psattrites helviventris Cabanis, Journ. fiir Om., xxix, July, 1881, 333 (Tehuan- 

 tepec?; =female; coll. Berlin Mus.); Oct., 1881, pi. 4, fig. 1.— Eeichenow 

 and SoHALOw, Journ. fiir Orn., 1884, 421 (reprint of oiig. descr.). 



[Psaltriparus] melanotis Sclatek and Salvin, Nom. A v. Neotr., 1873, 4. 



Plsaltriparus'] melanotis Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 268.— Eidqway, 

 Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 565, part; 2d ed., 1896, 565. 



A[egithalos'] melanotis melanotis Hellmayk, Tierreich, 18 Lief., Mar., 1903, 111. 



PSALTRIPARUS MELANOTIS lULUS Jouy. 

 JOUT'S BTJSH-TIT, 



Similar to P. m. melanotis but color of back, etc. , much less brown 

 (grayish olive or olivaceous hair brown, instead of olive-brown), and 

 under parts slightly paler. 



Adultmale.—Ijength (skins), 93. 5-109. 5 (102. 6) ; wing, 47. 5-52 (49. 8) ; 

 tail, 62-56.5(54.2); culmen, 6.5-7(6.9); taisus, 15. 5^16 (15.6); middle 

 toe, 8-8.5 (8.2).« 



Adult female. — Length (skin), 100; wing, 47.6; tail, 50.6; culmen, 

 7; tarsus, 15.5; middle toe, 8.* 



Western and central Mexico, in States of Jalisco (Hacienda el Molino ; 

 La Laguna; Sierra Nevada), Zacatecas (Valparaiso), San Luis Potosi*^ 

 (mountains near Jesus Maria), and Territory of Tepic (Santa Teresa). 



Psaltriparus melanotis ivlus Jouy, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xvi, no. 975, Apr. 18, 

 1894, 776 (Hacienda El Molino, Jalisco, s. w. Mexico; coll. U. S. Nat. 

 Mus.).— Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1896, 611, in text. 



A[egithalos'\ melanotis iulus Hellmaye, Tierreich, 18. Lief., Mar., 1903, 111. 



«Six specimens. 



''One specimen. 



oThe single specimen examined from San Luis Potosi is in reality intermediate in 

 coloration between the present form and P. m. lloydi, but seems rather near the 

 former. 



