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Based on the study of five specimens from Red Deer, Alberta, James Lee Peters (1920) describes this race as “similar to P. c. capitalis, but smaller; paler above, much paler below; lower breast, flanks, and abdomen, pale smoky gray, with only a faint drab wash. Similar also to P. c. canadensis in size and in the extent of white on the crown, but much paler throughout. * * * This form is strikingly paler than any of the known races of Perisoreus canadensis. The contrast between the white throat and the fore neck and the drab lower parts, so noticeable in the other subspecies, is quite lacking.”

The above common name appears in the nineteenth supplement to our Check-list (1944), where the present known range of the race is said to be “central and southern Alberta.” Its habits, so far as known, are included in those of the type race.