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9 (Connecticut). — Langdox, Birds Cincinnati, 1877, 4 (resident). — Brewer, 

 Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., xix, 1878, 302 (Lyme and Hartford, Connecti- 

 cut).— Bicknell, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, iii, 1878, 129 (Riverdale, New 

 York, 1 spec, Nov. 29-Mar. 28).— Mearns, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, iv, 1879, 

 34 (Riverdale, s. e. New York, rare winter resident). — Scott (W. E. D.), 

 Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, iv, 1879, 81 (Princeton, New Jersey, Jan.), 223 (Long 

 Beach, New Jersey). — Ridc4way, Nom. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 36. — 

 Nehrling, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, vii, 1882, 8 (Harris Co., Texas, resident).— 

 MoRAN, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, vii, 1882, 52 (Staten L, New York).— 

 . Agersborg, Auk, ii, 1885, 277 (Dakota Co., Nebraska, abundant). — Butler, 



Birds Indiana, 1897, 1134 (whole State, but rare and irregular in extreme 

 northern counties). 



{^Lophophaneif\ hicolor Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 80. 



Llophophaveft'] hicolor Nelson, Bull. Essex Inst., viii, 1876, 95 (n. e. Illinois, 

 winter straggler); ix, 1877, 33 (Wabash Co., Illinois, very numerous). — 

 CouES, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 264. 



B\_ai'oloj)hni\ hicolor Cabanis, Mus. Hein., i, 1850, 91, footnote. 



P[«7-i(s] {B\_aeolophus]) hicolor hicolor Hellmayr, Tierreich, 18 Lief., Mar., 

 1903, 42. 



Lophophanes missouriensis Baird, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 384, in text 

 (Fort Leavenworth, Kansas; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.). 



[Lophoplumes hicolor'] var. missouriensis Baird, Review Am. Birds, 1864, 78, in 

 text (under list of specimens). 



Parus (Lophophanes) hicolor floridanus Bangs, Auk, xv, Apr., 1898, 181 (Clear 

 Water, Hillsboro Co., Florida; coll. E. A. and O. Bangs). 



Flams'] {Blaeolophusl) hicolor floridanus Hellmayr, Tierreich, 18 Lief., Mar., 

 1903, 42. 



BiEOLOPHUS ATRICRISTATUS ATRICRISTATUS (Cassin). 

 BLACK-CRESTED TITMOTJSE. 



Adult male. — Forehead dull white, sometimes faintly tinged with 

 brown; rest of pileura, including crest, black, sharply defined against 

 whitish of forehead; rest of upper parts, including sides of occiput 

 and superciliary region, plain gray, strongly washed with olive, except 

 on superciliary region, where the gray is paler, gradually fading into 

 still paler gray on auricular region and sides of neck, and this fading 

 into white or grayish white on lores and malar region; upper eyelid 

 mostly black; under parts gra3dsh white, becoming clearer buffy white 

 posteriorly, the sides and flanks pale cinnamon-rufous; bill black; 

 iris brown; legs and feet dusky (bluish gray in life); length (skins), 

 122.5-142 (132.1); wing, 67.5-74 (71.2); tail, 56.5-66 (61.6); culmen, 

 9-10.5 (9.4); tarsus, 18-20.5 (19.6); middle toe, 11.6-13 (12. 4). « 



Adult female. — Similar to the adult male and often not distinguish- 

 able, but usually slightly smaller, with black of crest sometimes 

 appreciably less intense; length (skins), 122.5-135.5 (130.1); wing, 



« Twenty-two specimens. 



