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sides of head (including loral, orbital, suborbital, malar, and auricular 

 regions) similar in color to pileum, but much paler and duller; under 

 parts dull brownish-white, deepening on sides and flanks into pale, dull 

 4cru drab; bill, legs, and feet black; iris light yellow. 



Adults in autumn and winter. — Similar to the spring and summer 

 plumage, but coloration darker, the pileum and hindneck more sooty 

 brown, the sides and flanks more decidedly vinaceous-brown. 



Young. — Similar to spring and summer adults, but color of pileum 

 and hindneck deeper and duller (more as in winter adults); under 

 parts of body tinged with pale brownish buffy, and edgings to tertials 

 and greater wing-coverts pale brownish. 



Adult mafe.— Length (skins), 92.5-108.5 (102.4); wing, 45.5-49.5 

 (47.6); culmen, 6.6-7.5 (6.9); tarsus, 15-16.5 (15.9); middle toe, 

 8-9 (8.4). « 



Adult female— IjQngth. (skins), 92-108.5 (101.6); wihg, 45.6-49.5 

 (47.5); tail, 46.5-55 (51.4); culmen, 6.5-7 (6.9); tarsus, 16-16 (16.7); 

 middletoe, 8.9 (8.5).* 



West slope of coast mountains in Oregon, California, and northern 

 Lower California, north to the Columbia River, south to Nachoguero 

 Valley, Lower California (also to San Pedro Martir Mts.,"- and San 

 Fernando?). " 



Parus minim.us Townsbnd, Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., vii, 1837, 190 (Columbia 

 K. ) ; viii, 1839, 152. — Bonaparte, Geog. and Comp. List, 1838, 20. — Audubon, 

 Orn. Biog., iv, 1838, 382, pi. 352, figs. 5, 6; Synopsis, 1839, 80; Birds Am., 

 oct. ed., ii, 1841, 160, pi. 130.— Nuttall, Man. Orn. U. S. and Can., 2d ed., 

 i, 1840, 269 (Columbia R.; Santa Barbara). — Gambel, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. 

 Phila., iii, 1846, 155 (California); Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., i, 1847, 36 

 part (California). 



[Poecila] mimmMs Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 230. 



Psaliria minima Oassin, Illustr. Birds Cal., Tex., etc., 1853, 20. — Hbbrmann, 

 Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., ii, 1853, 264, part; Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., 

 X, pt. iv, 1859, 43, part.— Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1857, 126 (Santa 

 Clara Valley, California). 



Psaltriparus minimus Bonaparte, Compt. Rend., xxxviii, 1854, 62. — Baird, Rep. 

 Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 397 (Santa Clara and Los Angeles, California); 

 Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, no. 298, part; Review Am. Birds, 1864, 84, part 

 (Napa Valley, California). — Cooper and Suckley, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., 

 xii, pt. 2, 1860, 195, part (California).— Cooper, Orn. Cal., 1870, 48, part 

 (San Francisco and San Diego, California); Am. Nat., iv, 1871, 757 (Mon- 

 terey, California). — Coues, Check List, 1873, no. 35, part; 2d ed., 1882, no. 

 53, part; Birds Col. Val., 1878, 124, footnote, part. — Baird, Brewer, and 

 RiDGWAY, Hist. N. Am. Birds, 1, 1874, pi. 7, fig. 9. — American Ornitholo- 

 gists' Union, Check List, 1886, no. 743, part.— Anthony, Auk, iii, 1886, 171 

 (Washington Co., Oregon, resident).— Evermann, Auk, iii, 1886, 186 (Ven- 

 tura Co., California, resident). — Bailey (Florence M.), Handb. Birds 

 W. U. S., 1902, 460. 



« Twenty-four specimens. 



6 Eleven specimens. 



<' Specimens from these localities not seen by me. 



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