The Wren-Tits 
Recognition Marks. —Sparrow size; brown coloration with absence of distinctive 
marks; soft fluffy plumage and consequent dishevelled appearance; long tail, held at any 
angle; white eyes; loud musical notes, especially a staccato series in monotone accele¬ 
rando. A shy and ubiquitous bird of the chaparral, more often heard than seen. 
Nesting. —See next form. 
Range of Chavuea fasciata. —Pacific Coast district from Oregon south to northern 
Lower California. 
Range of C. f. fasciata. —Wholly contained within California. The humid 
coastal strip of California from Mendocino County south to Monterey, east to hills of 
Berkeley and Mt. Hamilton range. 
Authorities.—Gambel (Parus fasciatus), Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., vol. ii., 
1845, p. 265 (orig. desc.; Calif); Shufeldt, Jour, of Morph., vol. iii., no. 3, p. 475 
(osteology; relationships) \Lucas, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. xiii., 1890, p. 337 (osteology; 
relationships); Beal, U. S. Dept. Agric., Biol. Surv. Bull., no. 30, 1907, p. 71 (food); 
Grinnell, Condor, vol. xv., 1913, p. 178 (call-notes and mannerisms); Newberry, Condor, 
vol. xviii., 1916, p. 65, figs, (life hist.; desc. nest and feeding of young; photos). 
No. 160a Southern Wren-Tit 
A. O. U. No. 742a. Chamsea fasciata henshawi Ridgway. 
Synonym.— Pallid Wren-Tit. 
Description. —Like C. f. fasciata, but paler throughout; the division of colors 
between back and pileum less distinct; back, etc., dull sepia or olive-brown; the head 
hair-brown to deep mouse-gray; the underparts vinaceous buff. 
Nesting. — Nest: A closely woven cup of fine grasses, frayed weed-bark, and the 
like, lined with horsehair; placed one to four feet up in thickets; measures 3L2 to 4 
wide by 3 to iff deep outside; wide by 2 deep inside. Eggs: 3 to 5, usually 4; pale 
niagara green, unmarked. Av. of 23 eggs in the M. C. O. coll.: 17.8 x 13.7 (.70 x .54). 
Season: March-June; two broods. 
Range of C. f. henshawi. —Chiefly contained within California. Common 
resident of the Upper Sonoran zone, from Monterey south to northern Lower California, 
east to the desert divides and north along the western foothills of the Sierra Nevada to 
Shasta County. Also interiorly along the inner coast ranges from Siskiyou County to 
stations in Mendocino and Solano counties. 
Authorities. — Heermann (Chamaea fasciata), Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., ii., 
1853, P- 264 (Calif.); Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. v., 1882, p. 13 (orig. desc.; 
type locality, Walker's Basin, Kern Co .)■, Bowles, Condor, vol. xiii., 1911, p. 30 (Santa 
Barbara; desc. nest and eggs, song, habits). 
No. 160b Northern Wren-Tit 
A. O. U. No. 742b. Chamsea fasciata phaea Osgood. 
Synonyms. — Oregon Wren-Tit. Dusky Wren-Tit (Ridgwav). Coast 
Wren-Tit (A. O. U.). 
Description. —Like C. f. fasciata, but darker; pileum deep warm sepia; sides of 
head and neck grayer,—deep grayish brown faintly streaked with whitish; back, rump, 
etc., bister or dark sepia; the sides dark reddish brown (between Rood's brown and 
Vandyke brown); the underparts paling centrally to fawn-color; the streaks on chest, 
etc., broader, more diffuse, and more rufescent. Size of fasciata. 
