BIRDS OP NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. VOQ 



[Regulus] calendula. Sclater and Salvin, Norn. Av. Neotr., 1873, 4. 

 Regulus catundula Covus, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1861, 219 (Rigolet, Labrador). 

 Regulus calenduhis Bonaparte, Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., iv, 1824, 186. — Pea- 

 body, Eep. Orn. Mass., 1839, 314. — Thompson, Nat. Hist. Vermont, 1853, 

 84. — Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1858, 290 (Loch Lomondside, Scotland, 

 accidental).— CouES, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1866, 66 (Fort Whipple, 

 Arizona; breeding?). — Maynakd, Birds Florida, 1872, 27. — Allen, Bull. 

 Mus. Comp. Zool., iii, 1872, 161 (Mount Lincoln, Colorado; breeding), 166 

 (Ogden, Utah, Sept. ).— Trippe, in Coues' Birds N. W., 1874, 229 (mountains 

 of Colorado, breeding from 9,500 ft. to timber line; habits). 



Ji[egulus} calendula calendula Ridgway, Bull. U. S. Geol. and Geog. Surv. Terr., 

 ii, no. 2, Apr. 1, 1876, 184.— I-Iellmayr, Tierreich, 18, Lief., 1903, 14. 



Regulus calendula calendula Grinnell (J.), Pacific Coast Avifauna no. 3, June 25, 

 1902, 72.— Bailey (H. F.), Condor, iv, 1902, 81 (Kenai, Alaska, breeding; 

 descr. nest and eggs). 



[Reguloides] calendula Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 292. 



Ph[;yllobasileui~\ calendula Cabanis, Mus. Hein., i, 1850, 33. 



[Phyllobagileus] calendula Heine and Reichenow, Nom. Mus. Hein. Orn., 1882, 24. 



Clorthylio] calendula Cabanis, Journ. fiir Orn., i, 1853, 83, footnote. 



[Parus] griseus Gmelin, Syst. Nat., i, 1788, 1010 ("Greenland;"' based on Parus 

 griseus vertice rubra Muller, Zool., 34; Oriwison-crowned Titmouse Latham, 

 Synopsis, ii, pt. 2, 539). 



Regulus j'ubineus Vieillot, Ois. Am. Sept., ii, 1807, 49, pis. 104, 105 (new name 

 for Motacilla calendula Linnaeus). — Lesson, Traits d'Orn., 1831, 421. 



(?) Regulus calendula dneraceMi Grinnell (J.), Condor, vi, no. 1, Jan., 1904, 25 

 (Mt. Wilson, Los Angeles Co., California; coll. J. Grinnell). 



REGULUS CALENDULA GRINNELLI Palmer. 

 SITKA RUBY-CROWNED KINGLET. 



Similar to Ii. c. calendula, but with shorter wing, larger bill, and 

 decidedly darker "^-Ir.^tion. 



Adult male.— l^en^i\). (skins), 92-105 (98); wing, 55.5-57 (56.5); tail, 

 41.5-44.5 (42.9); expobed culmen, 8-9.5 (S.7); tarsus 18-19 (18.7); 

 middle toe, 8.5-10 (9.3)r.« 



Adult female.— luengih (skins), 96-110(98); wing, 53.5-56 (54.5); 

 tail, 40-44 (41.8); exposed culmen, 8-9.5 (8.7); tarsas, 17.5-18.5 (18.1); 

 middle toe, 9-10 (9.3).^ 



Pacific Coast district, breeding from British Columbia to head of 

 Lynn Canal (Skagway, etc.) and Yakutat Bay. (probabh^ to Prince 

 William Sound), Alaska; occasionally migrating southward in winter 

 to middle California (San Mateo and Monterey counties). 



Regulus calendula (not Moiadlla calendula Linnaeus) Brown, Ibis, 1868, 420 (Van- 

 couver I.). — Dall and Bannister, Trans. Chicago Acad. Sci., i, 1869, 276, 

 part (Sitka, Alaska). — Chapman, Bull. Aiji. Mus. Nat. Hist., iii, 1890, 154, 

 part (British Columbia; crit. ). — Fannin, Check List Birds Brit. Col., 1891, 

 44, part- — (?) Kobbe, Auk, xvii, 1900, 357 (Cape Disappointment, Wash- 

 ington, resident). 



« Six specimens. ^ Four specimens. 



