PARID.E — THE TITMICE. 93 



Lophophanes wollweberi, P.nxAr 



WOLLWEBER'S TITMOUSE; STRIPED-HEADED TITMOUSE. 



Loplmiihancs wuUtcibcri, Box. C. K. XXXI, Sept. ISoO, 478. — Wk.sti;ii.m.\.nn, liijili-. Dier- 

 kunde, III, 1851, 15, plate. — Haiud, Bink N. Am. 1858, 386, ])\. liii, (ig. 1 ; Ri'vinw, 

 79. — ScLATEi;, P. Z. S. 1858, 299 (Oaxaca, high lauds). — lis. Catal. ISGl, 14, no. 89. 

 — CoopEK, Birds Cal. I, 43. Parus auiicxm, Ca.ssin, Pr. A. N. Sc. V, Oct. 1850, 

 1U3, pi. i. Lvjjhofhanes ijalcatus, Cauanis, Mus. Hi;in. 1850, 1851, 90. 



Sp. Guar. Central portion of crest ash, encircled by black, commencing as a frontal 

 band, and pa-ssing over the eye. Chin, throat, and a line from behind the eye and curving 

 round the auricular.^ to the throat (bordered behind by white), as also .some occipital 

 feathers, black. A white line from above the eye margining the crest, with the olieeks 

 below the eye and under parts generally white. A black half-collar on the nape. Upper 

 parts of body ashy. Length, about 4.50 ; wing, 2.50. 



Had. Soutliern Eocky Mountains of United States, and, along table-lands through 

 Mexico, to Oaxaca (high regions, Sclateu). Orizaba (Alpine regions, Sum.). 



H-VBITS. "Wollwiiber's Titmouse, .so far as its distrihutiou is known, is 

 a bird of Western Texas, the high table-lands of Mexico, and of the whole 

 of New Mexico. It was described by Bonaparte and by Cassin nearly simul- 

 taneously, in 1850. It bears a very close resemblance to the Lo2)liophancs 

 cristatus of Europe. 



Although comparatively nothing is known in reference to the specific hab- 

 its of this species, they may be very readily inferred from those of tlie other 

 members of this genus, whose characteristics are all so well marked and so 

 uniform. Dr. Keunerly is the only one of our naturalists who has men- 

 tioned meeting the species in its living form. In his Report upon the Birds 

 of Lieutenant Whipple's Survey he states that lie found it in tlic thick Inishes 

 along the Pueblo Creek. Wlierever noticed it was constantly in motion, 

 hopping from twig to twig in search of its food. He also found it among 

 the pines of the Aztec Mountains. No mention is made of its nest or eggs, 

 and its nidification remauis to l3e ascertained. 



Genus PARUS, Lixx^eus. 



Parus, LlNN^EUS, Syst. Nat. 1735. (Type, P. major.) 



Gen. Cn.iR. Head not crested. Body and head full. Tail moderately long, and slightly 

 rounded. Bill conical, hot very stout ; the upper and under outlines very gently ami 

 slightly convex. Tarsus but little longer than middle toe. Head and neck generally black 

 or brown, with sides white. Nest in holes. Eggs white, sprinkled with red. 



In the group, as defined above, are embraced several genera of modern 

 systematists. Tlie true black-capped American Titmice belong to the section 

 Facile of Kaup, and exhiljit but three well-marked forms ; one, P. montamis, 

 with a white stripe over the eye ; one, atriaqnUus, without it, with black 



