l88 THE CHICAGO ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. 



At the present time we only know this Nuthatch as a common 

 migrant, arriving in the spring, from early in April to the mid- 

 dle of May, and returning, in the fall, from the latter part of 

 August to early in September; it may remain in our vicinity 

 until the latter part of October. It is probable that this species 

 is also an occasional winter resident, for Mr. J. Grafton Parker, 

 Jr., took a specimen at Lake Forest, Illinois, on December 15, 

 1894; and Mr. Amos W. Butler says in his "Birds of Indiana" 

 that Mr. Aiken reported these birds to be very abundant in Cook 

 County, Illinois, during the winter of 1866-1867. The only 

 record of its nesting within our limits is that of Mr. E. W. Nel- 

 son, who says:* "A rare summer resident. I found a pair 

 near Chicago with full grown young the first of July, and Mr. 

 Rice observed a pair feeding unfledged young the last of April, 

 1874, at Evanston, Illinois. The excavation containing this nest 

 was in a tree, standing on one of the principal streets of the town. 

 It was about twenty feet from the ground. The young were 

 thrusting their heads out of the hole and clamoring for food, 

 thus attracting his attention when they would otherwise have been 

 unnoticed." 



The range of the Red-breasted Nuthatch covers North Amer- 

 ica in general, northward to the limit of timber and southward, in 

 winter, to the southern border of the United States. It breeds 

 from the northern portions of the United States northward, and 

 southward in the Alleghany, Rocky, and Sierra Nevada Moun- 

 tains. 



FAMILY PARID^: TITMICE AND CHICKLADEES. 



Genus B.a:OLOPHUS Cabanis, 1850. 



Bsolophus bicolor (Linueeus). Tufted Titmouse. 



Parus licolor LlNN^us, S. N., ed. 12, I, 1766, 340. 

 Baeolophus hicolor Cabanis, Mus. Hein., I, 1850, 91. 

 Lophophanes hicolor Bonaparte, Consp. Av., I, 1850, 228. 

 Popular synonym : Blaok-feonted Titmouse. 



While the Tufted Titmouse is common in the southern part 

 of Illinois, it is certainly no more than a very casual visitant to 

 our area. Mr. J. Grafton Parker, Jr., observed one of these birds 

 at South Chicago on October 15, 1897, ^nd it is not uncommon 

 during the fall and winter months at Kouts, Indiana, sixty miles 

 southeast of Chicago. Mr. O. M. Schantz informs me that early 



*Birds of Northeastern Illinois, Bull, of the Essex Institute, Vol. VIII, 1876, 96. 



