BIRDS OF WORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 



703 



Adult female.— Length (skins), 90-95 (92.9); wing, 62.5-55 (53.5); 

 tail, 38-42 (39.7); exposed culmen, 7-9 (7.9); tarsus, 16-18 (16.8); 

 middle toe, 8-9 (8.6).'' 



Western North America, from Rocky Mountains to the Pacific 

 coast, southward in winter over highlands of Mexico to elevated dis- 

 tricts of Guatemala; breeding from Colorado (neg,r timber line), eastern 

 Oregon (mountains near Fort Klamath), Sierra Nevada (south to 

 Mount Whitney), Mount Shasta, etc., northward to Kenai Peninsula 

 and Kadiak Island, Alaska. 



Regulus cristaius (not of Vieillot) Townsend, Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., viii, 

 1839, 154 (Columbia R.). 



Regulus satrapa (not of Lichtenstein ) Woodhouse, in Rep. Sitgreaves' Expl. 

 Zuni and Col. R., 1853, 67, part (New Mexico).— Henry, Proc. Ac. Nat. 

 Sci. Phila., vii, 1855, 309 (New Mexico); xi, 1859, 106 (New Mexico).— 

 (7) ScLATER, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1857, 212 (Orizaba, Vera Cruz); 1860, 

 25 (Orizaba).— Baied, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 227, part (FortStei- 

 lacoom, Washington); Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, no. 162, part; Review Am. 

 Birds, 1864, 65, part (Simiahmoo and Steilacoom, Washington; Fort Crook, 

 n. California). — Sclatee, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1859, 235 (Vancouver 

 I.). — Cooper and StrcKLEy, Eep. Pacific R. R. Surv., xii, pt. ii, 1860, 174 

 (Puget Sound, etc., Washington; resident). — Lord, Proc. Roy. Art. Inat. 

 Woolw., 1864, 114 (British Columbia).— Brown, Ibis, 1868, 420 (Vancouver 

 I.). — Dall and Bannister, Trans. Chicago Acad. Sci., i, 1869, 277, part 

 (Sitka; Kadiak).— Coopee, Am. Nat., iii, 1869, 32 (Montana); Cm. Cal., 

 1870, 32 (Sierra Nevada, 7,000 ft., Sept.).— Aiken, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., 

 XV, 1872, 195 (Colorado).- RiDGWAY, Bull. Essex Inst., v, 1873, 179 (Colo- 

 rado); Orn. 40th Parallel, 1877, 410 (West Humboldt Mts., Nevada, 

 Sept.). — Ingersoll, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, i, 1876, 78, part (breeding 

 habits, etc.). — Henshaw, Rep. Orn. Spec. Wheeler's Surv., 1874, 154 (Ari- 

 zona); List Birds Arizona, 1875, 154. — Bendibe, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., 

 1877, 111 (Camp Harney, Oregon, Nov.). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. 

 Centr.-Am., Aves, i, 1879, 48 part (Orizaba; Tierra Fria, near City of Mex- 



« Ten specimens. 



Specimens from different localities average, respectively, as follows: 



Locality. 



Middle 

 toe. 



MALES. 



Four adult males from Puget Sound, Washington 



Four adult males from Sitka district, Alaska 



Two adult males from Kenai Peninsula, Alaska . . 



Four adult males from Kadiak, Alaska 



Three adult males from Montana 



Two adult males from southern Mexico 



FEMALES. 



Two adult females from California 



Three adult females from Washington 



Three adult females from British Columbia 



One adult female from Sitka 



One adult female from Kenai Peninsula 



8.5 



8.7 



8.7 



8.6 



8.6 



9 



8.5 



