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The St. Lucas Wren is a very 

 near cousin of the proceeding; the 

 eggs however are quite different, 

 having a lighter background and are 

 more distinctly marked with fine 

 blotches which never run together, 

 forming a solid color, as is often the 

 case with those of the cactus wren. 

 On account of the extreme timidity 

 and scarcity of this bird, in this lo- 

 cality, I am unable to say much in 

 regard to its food and general habits. 

 A. M. Shields, LosAngelos, Cal. 



The Titmice of New Mexico. 



Plain Titmouse. Lophpphanes 

 inornatus. Plain leaden gray with 

 a faint olive shade, paler below, 

 without markings of any kind. 

 Length 5^x6*. Wing and tail 2f. 

 Quite common about Santa Fe in 

 the winter. 



Gray Titmouse. LopJiophanes 

 inornatus griseus. General plumage 

 leaden gray, with faint olive shade 

 on the back; below lighter, even 

 soiled whitish on the belly; extreme 

 forehead and space about the eyes 

 and ears mixed with white; wing 

 and tail unmarked; conspicuously 

 crested; same size as the first. Quite 

 common about Silver City during 

 the winter, occasionally in small 

 flocks, but usually singly or in pairs 

 among the cedars and junipers. In 

 the spring they retire to the higher 

 mountain ridges, where they proba- 

 bly bi-eed though I have not as yet 

 found their nest. 



Wollweber's Titmouse, Lopliop- 

 hanes wollweberi. Above ashy, with 

 olivaceous shade; below soiled whit- 

 ish; chin and throat black; side of 

 head, neck, forehead and over the eye 

 and around top of the head white; 

 stripes through the eye, across the 

 forehead, on sides of the head and 

 neck black; crest in front the color 

 of the back, the long feathers at the 

 back black; wing and tail slightly 

 edged with whitish. Length 5-5i: 



wing and tail 2^. Found in the 

 cedars and junipers about Silver 

 City during the fall and winter, 

 singly or in small flocks; breeding 

 in the mountains in the spring. 

 May 11. I found a nest in an old 

 woodpecker's hole in an oak tree, 

 some twenty-feet from the ground, 

 containing young birds. 



Long-tailed Chick-a-dee, Partis 

 airicapillus septentronalis Above 

 grayish ash with slight olive tinge; 

 below whitish with slight brownish 

 shade on the sides; wings and tail 

 strongly edged with white; chin, 

 throat, crown and nape black; sides 

 of head white. Length about 5-i, 

 wing and tail 3. Abundant in the 

 mountains in the northern part of 

 the Territory. 



Mountain Chick-a-dee, Parus 

 montamis. Almost exactly like the 

 preceeding, but with a broad white 

 line over the eyes and across the 

 forehead. Of rare occurrence in the 

 mountains about Silver City, in the 

 Spring; more abundant, but by no 

 means common, near Santa Fe and 

 Las Vegas Hot Springs. 



Lead-colored Tit. Psaltriparus 

 plwmbeus. Above and on the crown 

 leaden gray, below soiled whitish, 

 ear-patch brownish; wing and tail 

 slightly edged with whitish; bill and 

 feet black; iris in some birds yellow, 

 in others brown. Diminutive birds, 

 3f to 4^ long; wings 2 or less, tail 2 

 or more. Very abundant through- 

 out the winter in the neighborhood 

 of Silver City. Of a restless, active 

 disposition they are found in flocks 

 of twenty to fifty among the cedars 

 and low shrubs upon the hillsides, 

 hanging in every conceivable posi- 

 tion from the twigs and branches 

 and keeping up a constant twitter- 

 ing as they search for their food. 

 Here one moment and the next dart- 

 away to some distant tree, always 

 on the move and pygmies in size 

 they afford no easy mai-k for 

 the collector. 



