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SYLVIID^. 



5. Eeoulus calendula (L.) Jjicht.—Ruhy-crowned Kinglet. 



It is difficult to say how abundant this sprightly little bird is on 

 the Eio Grande, for one can get about only a small proportion of a 

 country so densely covered with timber and chaparral. I saw none on 

 the former trip, but this year obtained several at Lomita Ranch. My first 

 was shot from low bushes on April 11. On April 30 I obtained another 

 in heavy timber, and on May 13 I shot another from the lower limbs of 

 a large tree in the heart of the woods. 



Lomita 

 ....do . 

 ....do . 



2.25 1.70 

 2.13 L75 

 2.20 L50 



6. POLIOPTILA c^RULEA (L.) Scl. — Blne-(jray Gnatcatcher. 



At Corpus Christi, on the 23d of March, while beating about the open 

 chaparral just outside of the town, we saw large numbers of this 

 species, evidently migrating. Among them were a few Black-throated, 

 Green, and Black-and-white Creeping Warblers. The Gnatcatchers 

 were so abundant that I could have taken fifty had I been so inclined. 

 On the Eio Grande, at Lomita, a bird and a half-finished nest of this 

 species were brought me in May. They were seen occasionally about 

 the open woodland, but I think are not common in such situations. 



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$ Corpus Christi March 23 



Wiua^.lO Tail 2. 00 



PAEIDJ3. 



7. LoPHOPHANES ATROCRISTATUS Cass. — Black-crested Titmouse. 



This Tit, so far as is known, is found within our limits only in South- 

 ern Texas, where it is abundant and resident. The most northern records 

 are San Antonio by Dr. Woodhouse, and Comal County by Mr. ^Y. 11. 

 Werner (see Mr. Brewster's paper in April No., 1879, of Bull.NuttallOrn. 

 Club) ; the most western is Fort Clarlcby Dr. Heermann. As no mention 

 is made of it in Mr. Lawrence's papers on " Birds of Western Me.Kico," 

 it is probably confined to the Gulf slope of both Mexico and the United 

 States. The only form of the family of Chickadees or Titmice, besides 

 this species, thus tar observed in Southern Texas, is the Yellow-headed 

 Titmouse {Auriparus Jlaviceps). The species L. tcoUiceheri and L. inor- 

 natm, so far as our knowledge goes, are confined to the liigher altitudes 

 of Arizona and New Mexico. The family seems to be unnoticed by 

 Mexican collectors (with the exception of Mr. Xantus, who records that 

 he found A. faviceps at Cape Saint Lucas, as I mention in my remarks upon 



