Jan., 1909. Birds of Illinois and Wisconsin — Cory. 



697 



specimen was taken by Dr. H. A. Atkins, near Locke, Ingham County, 

 Michigan, in 1877. (Geol. Survey of Ohio, Vol. IV, 1882, p. 226.) 



Family PARIDiE. Titmice and Chickadees. 



The family Paridee contains about 75 species, four of which are 

 found in eastern North America. The Chickadees are hardy little 

 birds, migrating only in a moderate degree and enlivening the snow 

 covered silent woods with their peculiar cheery little song. They 

 lay their eggs in holes in trees and stumps, lining the nest with moss, 

 leaves, and feathers. 



Genus B.EOLOPHUS Caban. 



351. 



Bseolophus bicolor (Linn.). 

 Tufted Titmouse. 



Parus bicolor Linn., A. O. U. Check List, 1895, p. 306. 

 Distr.: Eastern United States, west to the Great Plains and from 

 the Gulf coast regularly north to Ohio, southern Illinois, and 

 Nebraska; casual or accidental to southern Minnesota, southern Wis- 

 consin, and southern New York; breeds nearly throughout its range. 

 Adult: Crown with crest; forehead, black; rest of upper parts, 

 wings and tail, gray, usually with a faint tinge of olive on the back; 



under parts, whitish or ashy white, 

 tinged with chestnut brown on the 

 sides and flanks. Sexes similar. 



Length, 6.10; wing, 3.10; tail, 

 2.65 ; bill, .40. 



The Tufted Titmouse is an abun- 

 dant resident in southern Illinois, bub 

 rather rare in the northern portion 

 of the state. There is a single record 

 of its occurrence in Wisconsin. 



Mr. F. M. Woodruff writes: "Mr. 



J. Grafton Parker, Jr., observed one 



of these birds at South Chicago on 



October 15, 1897, and 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 



