"2 PARID.'E. 



Hah. Texas and Mexico, especially in Uie valley of the Kio 

 Graude ; southwards as far as Vera Cruz. 



a. Ad. sk. Mexico. Purchased. 



2G. Parus bicolor. 



La M^sange hup(5e de la Caroline, Briss. Orn. iii. p. 5G1 ; Buf. II. N. 



Ois. V. p. 451. 

 Crested Titmouse, Catesby, Nat. Hist. Carol, i. pi. 57. 

 Parus bicolor, Linn. S. N. i. p. ii-iO (1766); Bonn, et VieiU. Eiic. 



Meth. p. 507; Less. Traite d'Orn. p. 456; Nuttull, Man. Orn. 



p. 236 (1832), with woodcut; Audiih. Orn. Biogr. i. pi. 301; 



Wihon, Am. Orn. i. p. 137, pi. viii. tig. 5; Audubon, Am. B. ii. 



p. 143, pi. 125; Giraud, B. Long Island, p. 78 (1844) ; De Kay, 



Nexu York Fauna, Birds, p. 59, pi. 45. fig. 101 (1843); Neuioied, 



J.f. O. 1858, p. 118 ; Baird, Birds N. Am. p. 384. 

 Toupet Titmouse, Lath. Gen. 8yn. ii. pt. ii. p. 544. 

 Ba3olophu3 bicolor, Cab. Mus. Hein. i. p. 91 (1850). 

 Lophophanes bicolor, Bp. C. A. i. p. 228 (1850) ; Sclat. Cat. Am. 



B. p. 14, no. 87; Mai/nard, B. Florida, p. 32 (1872); Coues, Key 



N. A. B. p. 80 ; Coues, B. N.- West, p. 19 ; Baird, Breic. S^- Ridgw. i. 



p. 87 ; Coues, B. Colorad. Valley, p. 113. 

 Lophophanes missouriensis, Baird, B. N. Am. p. 384 (1858). 



General colour above as in P. atricristatus, but crown and crest 

 brown ; forehead and frontal band dark sooty brown ; underparts 

 dirty yellowish white, tinged with brownish ; " bill dark lead-colour, 

 blackish at the tip ; feet bluish lead-colour ; iris dark brown " 

 {Nemvied). Total length about 6 inches, wing 3'15, tail 2"5, tarsus 

 0-9. {Baird, Br. S,- R^) 



Hah. North America eastwards of the Missouri river. 



a. Ad. st. North America. Purchased. 



27. Parus inornatus. 



Parus inornatus, Gamhel, Pr. A. N. Sc. Phil. 1845, p. 265 ; id. J. Acad. 



N. Sc. Philad. n. s. i. p. 35, pi. vii. (1847). 

 Lophophanes inornatus, Cassin, III. B. Calif. Sr Ted-as, p. 19 (1853); 



Baird, B. N. Amer. p. 386 ; Sclat. Cat Am. B. p. 14, no. 88 ; 



Cooper, B. Californ. i. p. 42 ; Coues, Kexj N. Am. Birds, p. 80 ; 



Baird, Brew. ^ Ridyio. N. Am. B. i. p. 91 ; Coues, B. North- West, 



p. 20: id. B. Colorad. Vail. p. 114. 



General colour above, including the crest and crown of the head, 

 greyish olivaceous brown ; wing-coverts, quills, and tail brown, ex- 

 ternally tinged with the colour of the back ; nostril-feathers and 

 loral region dirty yellowish ; ear-coverts, sides of head, and all the 

 underparts dirty or creamy white, slightly more fulvous on the 

 flanks, lower abdomen, and under tail-coverts -. the bill of this 

 species is remarkably strong and high, its colour is leaden like the 

 feet. The sexes are alike in coloration. Total length less than 

 5 inches, culraen 0"46, wing 2-6-2-7, tail 2-2-2-35, tarsus 0*78. 



Hah. California, Southern Pacific States, and southern parts of the 

 llockv Mountains. 



