Titmouse— Chickadee WESTERN BIRDS 



GENUS B^OLOPHUS : GRAY TIT- 

 MOUSE. 



Gray Titmouse: Bceolophus inornatus griseus. 



FAMILY— TITMICE. 



In the mountains of the arid interior of the western 

 United States, breeding from Nevada, Utah, and central 

 Colorado to southeastern California, southern New 

 Mexico, and western Texas, a similar bird is known as 

 the Gray Titmouse. It is a rather larger, stouter-billed 

 form (being six inches or more long) , and a lighter gray 

 above, with under parts whitish-gray. In nesting and 

 feeding habits it resembles the Plain Titmouse. 



GENUS PENTHESTES: CHICKADEE. 

 (Eastern.) 



Chickadee: Penthestes atricapillus atricapillus. 

 FAMILY— TITMICE. 



The Chickadee, or Black-capped Titmouse, as it is 

 sometimes called, is one of the best-known, most beloved 

 birds of the eastern United States. Few of our feathered 

 friends have been so lauded in song and story as has 

 this little gray bird with his black cap and throat, set 

 off by white between. 



While many of these birds breed north of our country, 

 others range south to central Missouri, Illinois, northern 

 Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, northern New Jersey, and 

 in the Alleghenies south to North Carolina, going some- 

 what farther south in winter. 



Adult Chickadees are about five inches long, with 



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