PARID.E — THE TITMICK. 03 



Lophophanes woUweberi, Hoxai-. 



WOLLWEBEB'S TITHOTTSE ; STBIFED-HEAOEO TITMOUSE. 



LnplmplMMsivoUu-ihii-i, Bon. C. 1!. XXXI, Si'i>t. ISi'iO, 478. — Westeb.mann, Hijilr. Dier- 

 kiiiide, III, 1851, 15, plate. — Haiud, IJird.s N. Am. 1858, 386, pi. liii, lif?. 1 ; Ucvinw, 

 7!). — ScLATEU, P. Z. S. 1858, 299 (Oiixaca, high lands). — In. Catal. 18U1, 14, no. 89. 

 — Cooi'KU, Hiiils Cal. I, 43. Pitrm amicxus, Cas.sin, Pr. A. N. Sc. V, Oct. 1850, 

 103, pi. i. LiijihoplMiies galcnliis, Cauanis, Mus. Hfiii. 1850, 1851, 90. 



Sr. ("iiAii. CiMitnil portion of crest asli, encircled liy Idack, conimencin-i: as a frontal 

 band, and pa.s.sing over the eye. Chin, throat, and a lino from liehind the eye and cnrving 

 rouinl the auricular.>< to the throat (bordered behind by white), as also some occipital 

 feathers, black. A white line from above the eve marij:ininf( the crest, with the cheeks 

 below the eye and nnder parts generally white. A black half-collar on the nape. Upper 

 parts of body ashy Length, abont 4.50 ; wing, 2..50. 



Hab. Southern Rocky Mountains of I'nited rfi.tles, and along table-lands through 

 Mexico, to Oa.\aca (high regions, Sci..vrKii;. Orizaba (Alpine regions, Su.M.j. 



Habits. Wollweber's Titmouse, .so far as its distribution is known, is 

 a bird of Western Texas, the liigh table-lands of Me.xico, and of the whole 

 of New Mexico. It wa,s described l>y Hona^tarte and by Cassin nearly simul- 

 taneously, in 1850. It bears a very close resemblance to the Lophuphancs 

 cristufKs of Europe. 



Although comparatively nothing is known in reference to the specific hab- 

 its of this si)ecies, tliey may be very readily inferred from those if the other 

 members of this genus, who.se characteristics are all so well marked and so 

 uniform. Dr. Kennedy is the only one of our natiu-alists who has men- 

 tioned meeting the species in its living form. In his Report upon the Birds 

 of Lieutenant Whipple's Survey he states that he found it in tlie thick bushes 

 along tiie Pueblo (Jreek. Wherever lujticed it was coiLStantly in mction, 

 lutpping from twig to twig in search of its food, lie also found it among 

 the pines of tiie Aztec ^Mountains. Xo mention is made of its nest or eggs, 

 and its niditicution remains to be ascertained. 



Ck.sls PARUS, Li.nn.eu8. 



raru.i, LiNN.i-:rs, Sy^st. Xat. 1735. (Tyiu', P. iiiKJor.) 



Gkx. Ciiau. Head not crested. Rody am] head full. Tail moderately long, and slightly 

 romided. Dill conical, not very stout; the upjicr and nnder outlines very gcMitly iiiid 

 slightly convex. Tarsus l)ut little longer than middle toe. Head and neck generally black 

 or brown, with sides white. Nest in holes. Eggs white, sprinkled with red. 



In the group, as defiiu'd abovi", arc embraced several genera of modern 

 systematists. The true black-capped American Titmice belong to the section 

 Pdicilc of Kaup, and exhiliit but three well-marked forms; one, /'. vioufdiinn, 

 with a hitu stripe over the eye ; one, idrivapillus, without it, with black 



