Plate CCCLIII. Fig. 1. Male. Fig. 2. Female.
Bill moderately stout; tail rather long, emarginate, scarcely rounded;
upper part of head and hind neck dark brown, fore neck of a deeper
tint of the same; cheeks and sides of neck white; back, rump, and
sides of the body under the wings bright chestnut; the rest of the
lower parts greyish-white.
_Male_, 4-1/2, wing, 2-3/8.
Columbia River. Abundant. Resident.
Parus rufescens, Chestnut-backed Titmouse, Towns. Journ. Acad.
Nat. Sc. Philadelphia, v. vii. p. 190.
Chestnut-backed Titmouse, Parus rufescens, Aud. Orn. Biog. v.
iv. p. 371.