Color Key to North American Birds Part 80

Range.--Pacific coast region of southern California and northern Lower California.

[Ill.u.s.tration: 734.]

=734. Bridled t.i.tmouse= (_Baeolophus wollweberi_). L. 5.2. _Ads._ Head crested, black and gray; throat black; hind neck with a white band bounded by black; back olive-gray; below whitish. _Notes._ Chickadee-like but fainter. (Henshaw.)

Range.--Tableland of Mexico north to western Texas and southern Arizona.

[Ill.u.s.tration: 738.]

=738. Mountain Chickadee= (_Parus gambeli_). L. 5.5. _Ads._ A white line over the eye and a black through it; back gray; belly whitish.

_Notes._ A hoa.r.s.e, _dee-dee-dee_, a two or three-noted _phe-be_ whistle exactly like that of the Chickadee and an exceedingly sweet three-noted whistle of regular intervals, _d_, _c_, _a_.

Range.--"Mountainous portions of the western United States from the eastern base of the Rocky Mountains to the Sierra Nevada, north to British Columbia, Idaho, etc., and south to northern Lower California." (A.O.U.)

[Ill.u.s.tration: 740.]

=740. Hudsonian Chickadee= (_Parus hudsonicus_). L. 5.2; W. 2.6.

_Ads._ Crown hair-brown, back a more yellow brown; sides of head and neck grayish white; throat black, belly white, sides rusty. _Notes._ _Tscha-dee-dee-dee-dee_; the _dee-dee_ notes repeated with almost incessant volubility. (Brewer.)

Range.--British America, from the west side of Hudson Bay northwestward to the Lower Yukon.

=740a. Kowak Chickadee= (_P. h. stoneyi_). Similar to No. 740, but larger, W. 2.7. above grayer, crown much paler.

Range.--Kowak River region, Alaska.

=740b. Columbian Chickadee= (_P. h. columbia.n.u.s_). Similar to No. 740, but grayer above, crown slaty-drab.

Range.--Rocky Mountains from Montana northward; Kenai Peninsula, Alaska.

=--Canadian Chickadee= (_P. h. littoralis_). Similar to No. 740, but smaller, W. 2.5, crown duller brown.

Range.--British America east and south of Hudson Bay; northern New York, northern New England, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia.

=739. Alaskan Chickadee= (_Parus cinctus alascensis_). L. 5.2. _Ads._ Crown _brown_, back _brighter_; sides of head and neck _pure white_; throat blackish; belly whitish, sides buffy.

Range.--"Northern Alaska and eastern Siberia." (A.O.U.)

[Ill.u.s.tration: 741.]

=741. Chestnut-backed Chickadee= (_Parus rufescens_). L. 4.6. _Ads._ Back and sides rusty chestnut, crown sooty brown, throat black.

_Notes._ A lisping _the-the-the-te-te_. (Kobbe.)

Range.--Pacific coast from Oregon to southern Alaska.

=741a. California Chickadee= (_P. r. neglectus_). Similar to No. 741, but with only a tinge of rusty on flanks.

Range.--"Coast of California from Monterey County northward."

(A.O.U.)

=741b. Barlow Chickadee= (_P. r. barlowi_). Similar to No. 741a, but with no rusty on flanks.

Range.--Vicinity of Monterey, California.

[Ill.u.s.tration: 735.]

=735. Black-capped Chickadee= (_Parus atricapillus_). L. 5.2; T. 2.5.

_Ads._ Cap and throat black; back gray with a brownish tinge; outer margins of wing-coverts _grayish white_; flanks, cream buff. _Notes._ _Chickadee-dee_, liquid gurgles and chuckling notes and a sweet, clearly whistled, _phe-be_ or _phe-be-e_.

Range.--Eastern North America; breeds from southern Illinois and Pennsylvania north to Labrador, and south along Alleghanies to North Carolina; migrates a short distance below its southern breeding limits.

=735a. Long-tailed Chickadee= (_P. a. septentrionalis_). Similar to No. 735, but tail longer, 2.7, flanks paler, white edgings broader.

Range.--Rocky Mountain region north to British Columbia; east to Manitoba and the Plains.

=735b. Oregon Chickadee= (_P. a. occidentalis_). Similar to No. 735, but much darker; flanks grayish.

Range.--Pacific coast from northern California to Sitka.

[Ill.u.s.tration: 736.]

=736. Carolina Chickadee= (_Parus carolinensis_). Similar to No. 735, but smaller, L. 4.6; T. 2., the greater wing-coverts _not_ margined with whitish. _Notes._ Whistle "_tswee-dee_, _twsee-dee_."

Range.--Southeastern United States north to middle New Jersey, and southern Illinois; resident from southern New Jersey southward.

=736.a Plumbeous Chickadee= (_P. c. agilis_). Similar to No. 736, but paler above, whiter below.

Range.--"Eastern and central Texas (Bee, Victoria, Cook, and Concho Counties, etc.") (A.O.U.)

[Ill.u.s.tration: 737.]

=737. Mexican Chickadee= (_Parus sclateri_). Similar to No. 735, but sides broadly gray like back, black more extended. _Notes._ A rapid, vigorous double-noted whistle repeated three times, wholly unlike that of the Chickadee.

Range.--Mountainous portions of the Mexican tableland north to southern Arizona.

[Ill.u.s.tration: 630.]

=630. Black-capped Vireo= (_Vireo atricapillus_). L. 4.5. _Ad._ [Male]. Crown and cheeks s.h.i.+ning black; lores and eye-ring white; back olive-green; below white, sides tinged with greenish yellow; two whitish wing-bars. _Ad._ [Female]. Similar, but black of head duller.

_Yng._ "Top and sides of head dull grayish brown; lores, orbital ring and lower parts dull buffy white or pale buffy." (Ridgw.) _Notes._ "Of the general character of the White-eye or _bellii_ type." (Bailey.)

Range.--Breeds in central and western Texas; north to southern Kansas; winters in southern Mexico.