BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 435 



VaL, 1878, 124, footnote, part.— Ridq way, Norn. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 47, 

 part. — American Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 1886, no. 743, part.— 

 Brooks, Auk, xvii, 1900, 107 (British Columbia). — Rathbun (S. F. ), Auk, xix, 

 1902, 140 (Seattle, Washington, resident) .—Bailey (Florence M.), Handb. 

 Birds W. U. S., 1902, 460, part (Washington). 



IPsaltriparus} minimus Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 82, part. 



P[saliriparus] minimus CouES, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 268, part. — Ridg- 

 way, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 565, part. 



A [egithalos] minimus minimus Hellmayr, Tierreich, 18 Lief., Mar., 1903, 112, part. 



PSALTRIPARUS MINIMUS CALIFORNICUS Ridgway. 

 SACRAMENTO BUSH-TIT. 



Similar to P. m. minimios bat decidedly paler, the pileum light 

 broccoli brown in spring and summer, the back, etc., olive-gray instead 

 of deep smoke gray. (The autumnal and winter plumage very similar 

 to the spring and summer plumage of P. tti. minimus.) 



Adult TOfflfe.— Length (skins), 97.5-101 (99.4); wing, 47-49.6 (48.2); 

 tail, 60-53.5 (52.4); culmen, 7; tarsus, 16-17 (16.6); middle toe, 8-9, 

 (8.7).« 



Adult female. — Length (skin), 97.5; wing, 48.5; tail, 50.5; culmen, 

 7; tarsus, 16; middle toe, 8.6.* ^ 



Interior districts of Oregon and California, east of the Cascade 

 range in Oregon, and between coast mountains and crest of the Sierra 

 Nevada in California; north to northeastern Oregon (Wilbur, Uma- 

 tilla County), south to the valley of Kern River (Walkers Basin, etc.), 

 southern California. 



Psaltria minima (not Parus minimus Townsend) Heermann, Journ. Ac. Nat. 

 Sci. Phila., ii, 1853, 264, part; Rep. Pacific B. R. Surv., x, pt. iv, 1859, 43, part. 



Psaltriparus minimus Baird, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv. , ix, 1858, 397, part (Sacra- 

 mento Valley and Fort Tejon, California); Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, no. 298, 

 part; Review Am. Birds, 1864, 84, part (Sacramento Valley, Auburn, and 

 Fort Tejon, California). — Xantus, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., xi, 1859, 191 

 (Fort Tejon, California). — Cooper, Orn. Cal., 1870, 48, part (Sierra Nevada, 

 California). — Cohes, Check List, 1873, no. 35, part; 2d ed., 1882, no. 53, 

 part; Birds Col. Val., 1878, 124, footnote, part. — Nelson, Proc. Bost. Soc. 

 N. H., xvii, 1875, 356 (Nevada City, California; habits). — Ridgway, Noir,. 

 N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 47, part. — American Ornithologists' Union, Check 

 List, 1886, no. 743, part.— Townsend (C. H.), Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., x, 

 1887, 229 (Red Bluff, etc., upper Sacramento Valley; habits; descr. nest). 



[Psaltriparus'] minimus Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 82, part. 



P^saliripams'] minimus Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 268, part. 



Psaltriparus minimus, var. minimus Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. 

 Birds, i, 1874, 109, part (Fort Tejon). 



Psaltriparus minimus minimus Goode, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., no. 20, 1883, 338, 

 part. — Grinnell, Pacific Coast Avifauna, no. 3, 1902, 72, part. 



Psaltriparus minimus calif omicits Ridgway, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., ii, Apr. 10, 

 1884, 89 (Baird, Shasta Co., California; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.). — American 

 Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 1886, no. 743o, part. 



P^saltriparua] minimus californieus Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 565, part. 



« Six specimens. 6 One specimen. 



