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731. Parus bicolor Linn. [(36.] Tufted Titmouse. 
A common resident throughout the southern half of the Mississippi 
Valley east of the plains; abundant in eastern Kansas. If this bird 
performs any migration, it does so merely from the more opeu country, 
which it inhabits in summer, to the nearest heavy timber. In the late 
fall itisa most noisy bird, but in winter the struggle for food gives it 
no time for “ petoing.” With the first sign of spring, however, it begins 
with redoubled energy and keeps the woods full of its clear whistle 
until after the young have left the nest. In the Mississippi Valley it is 
not common north of southern Iowa, but has been known to wander to 
Minnesota. At Caddo, Ind. Ter., it began to leave the bottom-lands 
March 3, and by March 25 was spread evenly over the country. 
Parus bicolor texensis Sennett. [—.] Texan Tufled Titmouse. 
An inhabitant of southern Texas. (For a description of this new 
Tit see the Auk, vol. iv, No. 1, Jan., 1887, pp. 29-30.) 
732, Parus atricristatus Cass. [37.] Black-crested Titmouse. 
Dr. Coues, in his “ Birds of the Colorado Valley,” says of this spe- 
cies: “ Habitat, Valley of the Rio Grande and southward in Mexico, 
(p. 116). But the same year (1878) Mr. Ragsdale determined its range 
in the United States to be south from latitude 33° and west from longi- 
tude 98° 30’. Mr. Lloyd has ascertained that it is a tolerably common 
resident in Concho and Tom Green Counties, Tex., and thence to El 
Paso is the prevailing species. In April, 1878, its eggs were taken in 
Comal County, Tex., by Mr. W. H. Werden (Bull. Nutt. Ornith. Club, 
vol. Iv, 1879, p. 76); and Mr. N. C. Brown found it “a very abundant 
resident” at Boerne, Texas, in 1880. (Zbid., vol. VII, 1882, p. 35.) It 
is an abundant resident along the Lower Rio Grande (Merrill; Sen- 
nett). 
Parus atricristatus castaneifrons Sennett. [—.] Chestnut-fronted Titmouse. 
This new subspecies has been recently described by Mr. Sennett, 
from specimens taken in Bee County, in southern Texas (Auk, vol. iv, 
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734. Parus wollweberi (Bonap.). [39.] Bridled Titmouse. 
The home of the Bridled Tit is in western Texas and thence westward. 
735. Parus atricapillus Linn. [41.] Black-capped Chickadee. 
This Chickadee is found in the United States from western Iowa and. 
eastern Kansas eastward, and from southern Illinois northward. It has 
been claimed that it is not stationary, as has been generally supposed, 
but that there is a migratory movement each fall and spring, so that 
the speciés is not represented in winter at any station by the same in- 
dividuals which are found there in summer. Very little material has 
_ever been collected for the settlement of this point, and the field would 
be a fruitful one for some patient and painstaking observer. The only 
light furnished on the subject, by the record of 1884, came from Saint 
