TUFTED TITMOUSE 85 



Tufted Titmouse. Bceolophus hicolor 



6.00 



Ad. — Forehead black ; upper parts, wings, and tail gray; sides 

 of belly reddish-brown ; rest of under parts white ; head crested. 



Nest, in a hole in a tree. Eggs, white, spotted with reddish- 

 brown. 



The Tufted Tit is a permanent resident of ISTew Jersey, 

 as far north as Orange, and of Staten Island, though not 

 common in the northern portion of its range. In south- 

 western Connecticut it occurs only as a rare visitant ; it is 

 absent from the rest of New England. Its loud Avhistle, 

 like the syllables peto, attracts notice to it, and its con- 

 spicuous eldest and plain gray colors make it easy to iden- 

 tify. It has also lisping calls very like the Chickadee's, 

 and a hoarse dee dee dee. 



ITUTHATCHES: FAMILY SITTIDiE 



Red-breasted Nuthatch ; Red-bellied Nuthatch. 



Sitta canadensis 

 4.62 



Ad. $. — Upper parts bluish-gray, top of head and stripe 

 through eye black ; line over eye white; under parts reddish-brown. 

 Ad. 9- — Top of head and stripe through eye bluish-gray; under 

 parts paler. 



Nest, in a hole in a tree. Eggs, white, speckled with reddish- 

 brown. 



In northern New England and New York, in tracts of 

 spruce, the Red-bellied Nuthatch is generally an abundant 

 perjuanent resident. The forests are sometimes filled with 

 its little nasal call. At very irregular intervals, it moves 

 southward in large numbers, and becomes a common fall 

 migrant, in September and October, throughout southern 

 New England and the Hudson Yalley. After such a 



