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whistling song much like that of the Cardinal (Cardinalis virginianus)* °. Though 
several nests with young have been found, no eggs have as yet been taken. 
The specimens of L. atricristatus which were first .described by Cassin were 
obtained in Texas by J. W. Audubon in 1850; but until comparatively recent times the 
bird has been very little known. 
2. Lophophanes wollweberi. 
Lophophanes wollweberi, Bp. Compt. Rend. xxxi. p. 478"; Sel. P. Z.S. 1858, p. 299 *, 1859, p. 373°; 
Baird, Rev. Am. B. i. p. 79*; Sumichrast, Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H. i. p. 544°; Baird, 
Brew. & Ridgw. N. Am. B.i. p. 93°; Coues, B. Col. Vall. i. p. 1177. 
Parus anneaus, Cass. Pr. Ac. Phil. v. p. 103, t. 1°. 
Lophophanes galeatus, Cab. Mus. Hein. i. p. 90°. 
Supra olivaceo-cinereus, vertice dorso concolori undique nigro marginata, crista elongata, stria postoculari 
cum gula nigra conjuncta et torque nuchali nigris ; fronte, superciliis usque ad pectus productis et genis 
albis; subtus griseo-albescens ; rostro nigro, pedibus obscure corylinis. Long. tota 4°8, ale 2°6, caude 
2:4, rostri a rictu 0°45, tarsi 0-67. (Descr. maris ex La Parada, Mexico, Mus. nostr.) 
Hab. South-western Unirep States, Arizona, New Mexico, and Western Texas7.— 
Mexico, La Parada? and 'Talea* (Loucard), Mountains of San Diego, Orizaba 
(Sumichrast®), Tierra fria (le Strange). 
This is a well-marked species of rather limited range, being found only in Arizona, 
New Mexico, and Western Texas’ within the boundary of the United States, and 
again in Mexico in the highlands of the States of Vera Cruz and Oaxaca, as well as 
in the vicinity of the city of Mexico. It is doubtless found in many parts of the 
intermediate country, of the ornithology of which we know so little. Like Parus 
meridionalis it appears to be in Mexico an inhabitant of high ground, Prof. Sumichrast 
having observed it in the alpine region at an elevation of over 6000 feet above the 
sea °. 
Observers in the United States describe L. wollwebert as gregarious in habits, going 
about in flocks of twenty-five or more individuals’. Its nest and eggs have not been 
discovered up to the present time. 
It is somewhat remarkable that the three names!®° bestowed upon this species all 
appeared within a few weeks of one another. ‘That proposed for it by Bonaparte 
(L. wollweberi) has always been accepted, and has probably a slight priority. 
PARUS. 
Parus, Linneus, Syst. Nat. 1. p. 341 (1766) (partim). 
Of this well-known genus one species enters our limits, being found exclusively in 
the high mountains of Southern Mexico. The genus itself (including Pwcile) contains 
about fifty species, and is one of wide range, extending throughout the Palearctic and 
