TUFTED TITMOUSE. 



{Parus hicolor, L., Wilson, i. p. 137. pi. 8. fig. 5. Audubon, pi. 39. 

 Orn. Biog. i. p. 199. Philad. Museum, No. 7364.) 



Sp. Charact. — Crested; dark bluish ash-color; beneath whitish; 

 flanks tinged with dull reddish-orange. 



From the geographic limits of this species, as it occurs 

 to me, I am inclined to believe, that the bird seen in 

 Greenland may be different from the present ; as it does 

 not appear to exist north beyond the the states of Pennsyl- 

 vania, or New York. They are scarcely, if ever, seen or 

 heard in this part of Massachusetts, and instead of being 

 more abundant to the north, as believed by Wilson, they 



