BIRDS OF ISrORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 387 



tail, 64.5-68.5 (66.9); culmen, 10-11.5 (lO.T); tiir.sus. lIJ.5-21 (20.5); 

 middle toe, 12.5-U (13.8).^' 



Adult female.— Length (skins), i;3:-]-142 (i;is.4); wing, 7(»-T<; (7i!.7); 

 tail, 61-69 (64.5); culmen, 9.5-11 (10.1); tarsus. 18.5-20 (19.6); mid- 

 dle toe, 12-18 (12.5).^ 



Central Texas, east to the valley of the Brazos River (Youno- County 

 to Harris County), south to Nueces'" and Bee'" counties, west to 

 .Concho and Tom (xrcen counties, north to Yoiuii^ C(nintv (possibly to 

 the Ked River).'' 



Lophophanps atricrlstatus (not Parusi atricristatus Cassin, 1850) Cassin, lUuHtr. 

 Birds Cal., Tex., etc., 1853, 13, part, pi. 3. — Woodhouse, in Sitgreaves's 

 Expl. Zuni and Col. R., 1853, 69 (near San Antonio, Texas, etc.). — Baird, 

 Review, Am. Birds, 1864, 78, part (San Antonio). — Dresser, Ibis, 1865, 485 

 (San Antonio and Houston, Texas). — Coues, Check List, 1873, no. 29, part. — 

 Baikd, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, i, 1874, 90, part, pi. 6, 

 fig. 2.— Brewster, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, iv, 1879, 76 (Comal Co., Texas; 

 descr. nest and eggs). 



Parus alricriKtatwi (not of Cassin) American Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 

 1886, no. 732, part. — Lloyd, Auk, iv, 1887, 298 (Tom Green and Concho 

 counties; resident. — Cooke, Bird Migr. Miss. Val., 1888, 277, part (Concho, 

 Tom Green, Comal, and Kendall counties, Texas). — Beckham, Proc. V. S. 

 Nat. Mus., X, 1888, 692 (San Antonio, Leon Springs, and Beeville, Texas). — 

 Hasbrouck, Auk, vi, 1889, 241 (Eastland Co., Texas). — Chapman, Bull. Am. 

 Mus. N. H., iii, 1891, 327 (Corpus Christi, Texas, breeding).— Attwatek, 

 Auk, ix, 1892, 343 (San Antonio, Texas, resident; food; location of nest, 

 etc.).— Bailey (Florence M.), Handb. Birds W. U. S;, 1902, 455, part. 



Lophophaneit atrocristatus Coues, Birds Col. Yal., 1878, 116, footnote, part; Check 

 List, 2d ed., 1882, no. 42, part.— Ridgway, Norn. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 

 37, part.— Ragsdale, Bull. Nut. Orn. Club, vi, 1881, 114 (Texa-s range). — 

 Brown (N. C), Bull. Nut. Orn. Club, vii, 1882, 35 (Boerne, Kendall Co., 

 Texas, resident). / 



Llophophanes] atrocristatus Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 265, part. 



Plarus'] {B[aeolophits]) atrocristat^is Hellmayr, Tierreich, 18 Lief., Mar., 1903, 43, 

 part. 



BiEOLOPHUS INORNATUS INORNATUS (Gambel). 

 PLAIN TITMOUSE. 



Adults {sexes alike).— Above plain hair t)r()\vii or lioht y-rayish 

 brown, becoming more distinctly broAvn and sliuhtly ()li\aceous po.s- 

 terioriy, especially on edges of rectrices; sides of head and under 



tinged with blackish; similar to B. bicolor, but forehead rusty brown or chestnut 

 instead of black. 



The castaneifrons type is connected with purely tyjiicul 'ilrirristafu.t seiinefti on the 

 one hand and with the tcrcnxis type on the other, and tlic latter is similarly con- 

 nected with B. bicolor. 



" Ten speciujcns. 



''Nine specimens. 



<'I have not seen specimens from these two counties; pttssibly they may Viv refer- 

 able to the Rio Grande form (^true />'. <tlricri)<tatii)<). 



t^ According to Ragsdale (Bull. Xutt. Orn. Club, vi, ISSI, I 111. 



