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that when their haunts are discovered, they will 

 be found equally abundant there, with our other 

 species, in their proper localities. From personal 

 observation we can say little regarding the habits 

 of the Crested Titmouse ; we met with it only 

 once, and that in a locality very different from 

 that which has been hitherto assigned to it. It 

 was in the apple orchards near Havre de Grace, 

 where a small group, apparently a brood, were 

 actively employing themselves, keeping togethei 

 by a shrill call, and following each other in a 

 tract ; they were extremely tame, allowing me to 

 use stones, in the hope of procuring a specimen, 

 and erecting and depressing their beautiful crest 

 as they appeared to find any deposit of ova, or 

 as one of the troop happened to agress upon 

 another. It was in the beginning of November 

 that those were seen, and it is possible that a 

 partial migration may have thus, for a time, 

 brought them so far from their usually recorded 

 localities. They are known to occur over 

 northern Europe, but we do not trace them beyond 

 these bounds. Mr Hoy has stated to Mr Yar- 

 rell that it prefers woods having a mixture of oak 

 and pine, using the hollow oaks for its nest. 



Head crested, the longest feathers curving for- 

 wards, they are black, broadly edged with white ; 

 auriculars, throat, upper part of the breast, and a 

 narrow collar to the occiput black, enclosing a 

 white space in the region of the eyes, and on the 

 sides of the neck. Upper parts yellowish brown. 

 Quills and tail hair brown, outer webs edged 



