436 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



P[gaUriparus'] m[inimus] californicus Bailey (Florence M. ), Handb. Birds W. 



U. S., 1902, 461, part. 

 A{egithalos\ minimus californicus Hellmaye, Tierreich, 18 Lief., Mar., 1903, 112, 



part. 



PSALTRIPARUS GRIND<E Belding. 



GRrNBA'S BTJSH-TIT. 



Similar to P. minirmts californicus but slightly smaller, with rela- 

 tively smaller feet; color of back, scapulars, rump, and upper tail- 

 coverts much purer (less brownish or olive) gray, and under parts paler. 

 Achdts in spring and summer. — Pileum and hindneck plain broccoli 

 brown; back, scapulars, lesser wing-coverts, rump, and upper tail- 

 coverts plain gray (between gray no. 6 and mouse gray), abruptly 

 contrasted with brown of hindneck; wings (except lesser coverts) 

 and tail deep brownish gray or hair brown with pale gray edgings; 

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

 regions) plain dull brownish white or very pale grayish brown; under 

 parts dull white, the sides and flanks inclining to very pale grayish 

 brown; bill, legs, and feet black. 



Admits in autv/mn and winter. — Similar to the spring and summer 

 plumage but colors deeper, especially sides of head and under parts, 

 which are pale grayish brown rather than brownish white. 



Adult male.— Length, (skins), 93.5-103 (98.6); wing, 44.6-49 (47.5); 

 tail, 48.5-55.5 (52.1); culmen, 6.5-7 (6.6); tarsus, 14.5-16 (15.3); mid- 

 dle toe, 7.5-8.5 (7.9). '^ 



Adult female.— Length, (skins), 91.5-99 (95.7); wing, 45-48 (46.6); 

 tail, 47.5-53.5 (50.6); cuhnen, 6.5-7 (6.8); tarsus, 14-16 (15); middle 

 toe, 7-8 (7.8).« 



Cape St. Lucas district of Lower California (Sierra de la Laguna; 

 Miraflores; San Francisco Mountains; Victoria Mountains). 



Psaliriparus grindm Belding, Ms., Ridqway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vi, Oct. 5, 

 1883, 155 (Laguna, Lower California; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus. ) ; Proc. Biol. Soc. 

 Washington, ii, 1884, 96 (crit.).— Belding, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vi, 1883, 

 347 (San Francisco and Victoria Mts., Lower California).— Reichenow and 

 SoHALOw, Journ. fiir Orn., 1886, 438 (reprint of orig. descr.). — Beewster, Bull. 

 Mus. Comp. ZooL, xli, 1902, 205 (Sierra de la Laguna, Lower California; 

 descriptions; crit.; descr. nest). 

 Psaltripanis minimus grindse Ridgway, Proc. V. S. Nat. Mus., viii, Sept. 2, 1885, 



354. — American Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 1886, no. 7436. 

 Plsaltripairus'] minimus grindx Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 565. 

 Alegiihalosl minimus grindae Hbllmayr, Tierreich, 18 Lief., Mar., 1903, 113. 



Family SITTID^. 



THE NUTHATCHES, 



Small, scansorial " ten-primaried " acutiplantar Oscines with the 

 bill straight, nearly as long as head, neither uncinate nor notched; 

 hallux (without claw) equal to or longer than outer toe (without claw) 



o Ten specimens. 



