The '■> < . 
of a fortr.igl i -■■■)•■' m; !• 
Sierra 1 !••; : 
had stolen hi.'. <*••• a* ' '< 
Uir as * ■! '\ . 'o 
aratr rw ■■ -a \i. ■ •• it-. 
A,. -ong of the 
Chickadee who 
■ ■ ; • mstant, so 
■ h-Anguish a sep- 
Na. 124 
<tnur-backed Chickadee 
• s.t .; ; . /-liteseiins rufesceijs !J. K. Fownsend). 
,i! v i 1 i (UCKaPEK. 
,....* nape dull sepia brown, he coming sooty 
•a. an.l behind > ye. separated I nan sooty black 
....a ■ in.-.: «i.-:•>.!!•!y on sides oi k: hark. scapu- 
near,.; un-ana* e. • r a .. ivortS 
•:ts h,.t brown or more or less .inp- ■! with chestnut; 
lit -i. a rl.ed '.v;;:, ; ae. ' gray remaining uppcrparts 
•.eios *,x . -a is It i.i-.e-t i:»h Hiii black* feci brownish 
• ■ ■ • Young 
..•*•! .• ; . e. .. ; . - Length 
• . .. J,; e- *,*;* , o, ; f (is). 
Chestnut-backed Chickadees 
Rufescens (upper), barlowi (lower) 
Females, about life size 
From water-color painting by Major Brooks 
- o . enlarged, 
. hreds, green 
and x titer soft sub- 
... i.;.,. as to ground. 
;-.nuM -brown), chiefly 
■Y-asoti: April 25 
• >>:}, America from 
:> •• : southeastern Alaska, 
; . Montana. 
;n t uiuidian and Transition 
!; ■ ' I. • Siskiyou Mountains, 
in Sonoma County, and 
.1 America, vol. ii., 1841, 
; 1,(redwood-belt of * 
,■ 4. p. 364, 3 maps 
1007, pi 70 
. - l mgton). 
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