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REVIEW or AMERICAN BIRDS. 



[part I. 



Locality. 



Cape May Co., N. J. 

 Washington, D. C. 



Fort Cobb, Ark. 



When 

 Collected. 



Feb, 22, '42. 

 April 5, '42. 

 May 1, '59. 



May 20, '60. 



Received from 



J K. Townsend. 

 W. M. Baird. 



C. Drexler. 



D. W. Prentiss. 

 J. H. Clark. 



Collected by 



C. S. M'Carthy. 



(607.) 4.23 1 6.00. (706.) 4,60; 7.00. (11,971.) 4.80; 7.32. 



Fariis montanus. 



Parus montanus, Gambel, Pr. A. N. Se. April, 1843, 259 (Santa Fe). — 

 Ib. Jour. A. N. Se. new ser. I, 1847, 35, pi. viii, fig. 1. — Baird, 

 Birds N. Am. 1858, 394.— Sclatee, Catal. 1861, 14, uo. 84. 



Hab. Mountain regions of Middle and Western United States. 



Several variations in coloration and other characters will be found 

 mentioned in the Birds N. Am., as quoted above, but nothing appa- 

 rently of specific value. 



(22,041.) Iris brown. 



Parus budsonicus. 



Parus hudsonicus, Forster, Philos. Trans. LXII, 1772, 383, 430. — Ann. 

 Orn. Biog. II, 1834, 543, pi. 194.— Ib. Birds Am. II, 1841, 155, pi. 

 128.— Baied, Birds N. Am. 1858, 395. 



Hab. Northeastern portions of North America. 



Specimens from the most northern localities appear larger than 

 those from Maine and Nova Scotia, with proportionally longer tails 

 (3.00 inches, instead of 2.40). I can, however, detect no other 

 difference, although I have access to but a few skins from southern 

 points. This difference is much the same as between P. atricapillus 

 and sepientrionalis ; to which variety the original P. hudsonicus 



