THE BIRDS OF XEW JERSEY. 305 



729 Sitta pusilla Latham. 

 Brown-headed Nuthatch. 



Adults. — Length, 4-4.40. Wing, 2.60. Upper parts, blue-gray, except the 

 head and nape, which are brown ; wings, dusky ; tail, dusky, two outer feathers 

 with subterminal white spots, central pair gray ; under parts of body, white, 

 tinged with buflf. 



Very rare straggler from the south. Beesley gives it in his list of 

 Cape May birds (1857), and Turnbull states that it is a rare visitant 

 to the southern counties, but does not specify whether he referred to 

 Pennsylvania or New Jersey. The only definite occurrence is a single 

 bird observed by Mr. S. N. Rhoads, at Haddonfield, in winter, about 

 1876. It came to feed on suet fastened to a tree near the window. 



Family PARID^. 



The Titmice. 



Small arboreal birds, our species all of gray plumage; especially con- 

 spicuous in winter as they search the tree-tops for food, frequently 

 hanging, head down, from the slender twigs. 



a. Head crested gray. Tufted Titmouse, p. 305 

 aa. Head not crested, black. 



b. Wing, .20, longer than tail. Cakolina Chickadee, p. 307 



66. Wing equal to or shorter than the tail. Black-capped Chickadee, p. 306 



731 Baeoiophus bicoior (Linnaeus). 

 Tufted Titmouse. 



PLATE 80. 



Adults. — Length, 5.75-6.50. Wing, 3.25. Head, crested ; color above, plain 

 slate-gray, including wings and tail ; below, grayish-white, flanks strongly 

 washed with cinnamon : forehead, black ; eye region, whitish, with a small 

 black spot just above the orbit. 



Young in first summer. — Browner above, with the crest and black forehead 

 much less developed. 



Tiest in a hole in a tree, made of feathers, leaves, grass, etc. ; eggs, five to 

 eight, white, spotted with reddish-brown, .74 x .54. 



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