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9 (Connecticut). — Langdon, Birds Cincinnati, 1877, 4 (resident). — Brewer, 

 Proc. Boat. Snc. Nat. Hist., xix, 1878, 302 (Lyme and Hartford, Connecti- 

 cut).— Bicknell, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, iii, 1878, 129 (Riverdale, New- 

 York, 1 spec, Nov. 29-Mar. 28).— Mearns, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, iv, 1879, 

 34 (Kiverdale, s. e. New York, rare winter resident). — Scott (W. E. D. ), 

 Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, iv, 1879, 81 (Princeton, New Jersey, Jan.), 223 (Long 

 Beach, New Jersey). — Ridqway, Nom. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 36. — 

 Nehrling, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, vii, 1882, 8 (Harris Co., Texas, resident). — 

 Mohan, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, vii, 1882, 52 (Staten I., New York).— 

 Agbksbokg, Auk, ii, 1885, 277 (Dakota Co., Nebraska, abundant). — Butleh, 

 Birds Indiana, 1897, 1134 (whole State, but rare and irregular in extreme 

 northern counties). 



ILophophanes] bicolor Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 80. 



Llpphophanei] bicolor Nelson, Bull. Essex Inst., viii, 1876, 95 (n. e. Illinois, 

 winter straggler); ix, 1877, 33 (Wabash Co., Illinois, very numerous). — 

 CouES, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 264. 



Blaeolophus] bicolor Cabanis, Mub. Hein., i, 1850, 91, footnote. 



Plarus] {B[aeolophiis]) bicolor bicolor Hellmaye, Tierreich, 18 Lief., Mar., 

 1903, 42. 



Lophophanes missouriensis Baird, Eep. Pacific R. E. Surv., ix, 1858, 384, in text 

 (Fort Leavenworth, Kansas; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.). 



ILophophanes bicolor'} var. misspuriensis Baird, Eeview Am. Birds, 1864, 78, in 

 text (under list of specimens). 



Parus {Lophophanes) bicolor floridanus Bangs, Auk, xv, Apr., 1898, 181 (Clear 

 Water, Hillsboro Co., Florida; coll. E. A. and 0. Bangs). 



Flams'] (Blaeolophvsjj bicolor floridanus Hellmayr, Tierreich, 18 Lief., Mar., 

 1903, 42. 



B/EOLOPHUS ATRICRISTATUS ATRICRISTATUS (Cassin). 

 BLACE-CRESTED TITKOTJSE, 



Adult male.- — Forehead dull white, sometimes faintly tinged with 

 brown; rest of pileum, including crest, black, sharply defined against 

 whitish of forehead; rest of upper parts, including sides of occiput 

 and superciliary region, plain gray, strongly washed with olive, except 

 on superciliary region, where the gray is paler, graduallj"^ fading into 

 still paler gray on auricular region and sides of neck, and this fading 

 into white or grayish white on lores and malar region; upper eyelid 

 mostly black; under parts grayish white, becoming clearer buflfy white 

 posteriorly, the sides and flanks pale cinnamon-rufous; bill black; 

 iris brown; legs and feet dusky (bluish gray in life); length (skins), 

 122.5-142 (132.1); wing, 67.5-74 (71.2); tail, 56.5-66 (61.6); culmen, 

 9-10.5 (9.4); tarsus, 18-20.5 (19.6); middle toe, 11.5-13 (12.4).« 

 . Adult female. — Similar to the adult male and often not distinguish- 

 able, but usually slightly smaller, with black of crest sometimes 

 appreciably less intense; length (skins), 122.5-135.5 (130.1); wing, 



« Twenty-two specimens. 



