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terials, laying six or eight eggs, white with a few brownish-red specks near 

 the large end. (Nuttall.) That species also kills small birds occasionally, 

 and has been found quite interesting as a cage-bird. 



Lophophanes atricristatus, Cassin. 



THE BLACK-CEESTED TITMOUSE. 



Parus atricristatus, C.iSSis, Pr A. N. Sc. 1850, 103; p\. ii. — Lopliophanes atricristatus, Cas- 

 sin, 111. Birds Texas, I. 1853; pi. iii. — Baikd, Birds N. Amer. 1858, 385. Ib. llev. 

 Amer. Birds, 78. 



Sp. Char. Crest very long (1.25), and much pointed. Above ash-colored. Abroad 

 band on the forehead dirty white ; rest of head above, and crest black, tinged with ash on 



the sides. Color of back shading insensibly into the dull ashy white of the under parts. 

 Sides of body pale browrush-chestnut. Female with crest duller black. Iris brown. 

 Length, about 5. 25 ; wing, 3.00. 

 Hub. Valley of the llio Grande. 



This species has not as yet been detected west of the Eio Grande basin, 

 though it wiU doubtless be met with in Eastern Arizona. Not niucli is 

 known of its habits, which, liowever, probably resemble those of L. iaornatus. 

 (Baird.) 



Lophophanes WoUweberi, Bonaparte. 

 WOLLWEBEK'S TITMOUSE. 



Lophoplianes WoUweberi, Bonaparte, Comptes Rendus, xxxi. Sept. 1850, 478. — Baird, 

 Birds N. Amer. 1858, 386 ; pi. liii. f. 1. Ib. Rev. Amer. Birds, 79. — Couiis, Pr. A. N. 

 Sc. 1866, 79. 



Parus annexus, Cassin, Pr. A. N. Sc. 1850, 103 ; pi. i. 



Lophophanes (jalealus, Cabanis, Mus. Hcin. 1850, 90. 



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

 band and passing over the eye. Chiu, throat, a hne from behind the eye and curving 



