no County: Warren Fork of Leevining Creek, 9200 ft., 1; Williams
Butte, 7500 ft., 1. Fresno County: Bullfrog Lake, 10,600 ft., 6. Inyo
County (not typical): near Kearsarge Pass at 8500 ft., 1; Little Onion
Valley, 7500 ft., near Kearsarge Pass, 1; Cottonwood Lakes, 11,000 ft.,
7. Tulare County (not typical): Whitney Creek, 11,000 ft., 3; Whitney
Meadows, 9800 ft., 14; Olancha Peak, 10,000 ft., 1.
Nevada: Pine Forest Mts., Humboldt County, 13.
=Penthestes gambeli baileyae= (Grinnell)
Bailey Mountain Chickadee
_Parus montanus_, of authors, part.
_Parus gambeli_, of authors, part.
_Parus gambeli baileyae_ Grinnell (1908, p. 29).
_Penthestes gambeli baileyae_, American Ornithologists'
Union Committee (1910, p. 351), part (?); and of authors.
_Type locality._--Mount Wilson, 5500 feet altitude, San Gabriel
Mountains, Los Angeles County, California. Type in coll. J. Grinnell.
_Diagnosis._--Tone of coloration on sides, flanks and back distinctly
plumbeous--more exactly, on sides and flanks the "smoke gray" of Ridgway
(1912, pl. 46), and on back near the "mouse gray" of the same authority
(pl. 51). The tail in this race is short as in _abbrevialus_, but the
bill is long and heavy, averaging thicker through than in any of the
other three races.
_Measurements._--Average of 14 males: Wing, 70.0 mm.; tail, 65.4;
exposed culmen, 8.5; depth of bill at base, 4.1. For extremes, see
accompanying table.
_Range._--Higher mountains of southern California, from the extreme
southern Sierra Nevada in Tulare County, and the Santa Lucia Mountains
in Monterey County, south to the Cuyamaca Mountains, San Diego County;
also (probably this subspecies) in the San Pedro Martir Mountains, in
northern Lower California. _Specimens examined_, 160, from the following
localities, all in California:
Monterey County: Headwaters of Big Creek, 2. Ventura County: Mt. Pinos,
2. Kern County: Kiavah Mt., 7000 ft., near Walker Pass, 2. Tulare County
(not typical): Taylor Meadow, 7000 ft., 8; Cannell Meadow, 7500 ft., 1;
Pine Flat, 7500 ft., 1; Long Meadow, 7700 ft., 1; Sirretta Meadows, 9000
ft., 3; Trout Creek, 6000 ft., 10; near Trout Creek, 7500 ft., 2;
Jackass Meadow, 7750 ft., 3; Troy Meadows, 8000 ft., 1. Los Angeles
County: Mt. Wilson, 25; Buckhorn Canyon, near Mt. Waterman, 2; near
Pasadena, 9 (vagrants); Verdugo, 1 (vagrant). San Bernardino County:
near Cucamonga, 1; San Bernardino Mts., 35; V
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