80 PARINE, TRUE TITMICE.—GEN. 12. 
obvious seasonal or sexual changes of plumage. All but one of our species are 
plainly clad; still they have a pleasing look, with their trim form and the tasteful 
colors of the head. ‘ : 
Subfamily PARIN A. True Titmice. 
Exclusive of certain aberrant forms, usually allowed to constitute a separate 
subfamily, and sometimes altogether removed from Puride, the Titmice compose 
a natural and pretty well defined group, to which the foregoing diagnosis and re- 
marks are particularly applicable. There may be about seventy-five good species 
of the Parinc, thus restricted, most of them falling in the genus Parus, or in its 
immediate neighborhood. With few exceptions they are birds of the northern 
hemisphere, abounding in Europe, Asia and North America. The larger proportion 
of the genera and species inhabit the Old World ; all those of the New World occur 
within our limits, except two— Psaliriparus melanotis and Parus meridionalis, 
which are Mexican, though they have been lately included in our systematic works. 
The former is a very distinct and beautiful species; the latter is perhaps only a 
southern variety of the common Chickadee. 
12. Genus LOPHOPHANES Kaup. 
*.*Conspicuously crested. Leaden-gray, often with a faint olivaceous shade, 
paler or whitish below ;- wings and tail unmarked. (All the figures are of natural 
size.) 
Tufted Titmouse. Forehead alone black; nearly white below; sides 
washed with rusty-brown; feet leaden-blue. Young birds have the crest 
plain, thus resembling the next species; but they are 
nearly white below, the sides showing rusty traces. 
Largest of our species of the family, 6-64; wing 3-34, 
tail about the same. Eastern United States, north to 
Long Island; “Nova Scotia” (Aud.). Wus., i, 137, pl. 
8, f. 5; Aup., ii; 143, pl. 125; Bp., 384: BICOLOR. 
Plain Titmouse. Plain leaden gray with faint olive 
shade, merely paler below; no markings anywhere. 
54-6; wing and tail about 23. New Mexico, Arizona and California. 
Cass., Ill., p. 19; Bp., 8386; Exxtor, pl. 3; Coor., 42. . . INORNATUS. 
Black-crested Titmouse. Size of the last, or rather less; similar to the 
Fic. 21. Tufted Titmouse. 
Fic. 22. Plain Titmouse. Fic. 23. Black-crested Titmouse. Fic. 24. Bridled Titmouse. 
first in color, but forehead whitish, and whole crest black. Valley of the 
Rio Grande. Cass., p. 13, pl. 3; Bp., 385; Coor., 43. | ATRICRISTATUS. 
Bridled Titmouse. -Olivaceous-ash; below soiled whitish; chin and 
