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tail, 64.5-68.5 (66.9)'; culmen, 10-11.5 (10.7); tarsus, 19.6-21 (20.6); 

 middle toe, 12.5-14 (13. 3). « 



Adult female.—Length (skins), 133-142 (138.4); wing, 70-76 (72.7); 

 tail, 61-69 (64.5); culmen, 9.5-11 (10.1); tarsus, 18.5-20 (19.6); mid- 

 dle toe, 12-13 (12.6).» 



Central Texas, east to the valley of the Brazos River (Young County 

 to Harris County), south to Nueces "^^ and Bee'' counties, west to 

 Concho and Tom Green counties, north to Young County (possibly to 

 the Red River). <« 



Lophophanes atricristatus (not Paras atricrisiatus Cassin, 1850) Cassin, Illustr. 

 Birds CaL, Tex., etc., 1853, 13, part, pi. 3. — Woodhouse, in Sitgreaves's 

 Expl. Zuiii and Col. R., 1853, 69 (near San Antonio, Texas, etc.). — Baikd, 

 Review, Arfi. Birds, 1864, 78, part (San Antonio). — Dressee, Ibis, 1865, 485 

 (San Antonio and Houston, Texas). — Coues, Check List, 1873, no. 29, part. — 

 Baikd, Brewer, and Ridg ivay. Hist. N. Am. Birds, i, 1874, 90, part, pi. 6, 

 fig. 2.— Brewster, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, iv, 1879, 76 (Comal Co., Texas; 

 descr. nest and eggs). 



Parus airicristaius (not of Cassin) American Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 

 1886, no. 732, part.— Lloyd, Auk, iv, 1887, 298 (Tom Green and Concho 

 counties; resident. — Cooke, Bird Migr. Miss. Val., 1888, 277, part (Concho, 

 Tom Green, Comal, and Kendall counties, Texas). — Beckham, Proo. IT. S. 

 Nat. Mus., X, 1888, 692 (San Antonio, Leon Springs, and Beeville, Texas). — 

 Hasbrouok, Auk, vi, 1889, 241 (Eastland Co., Texas). — Chapman, Bull. Am. 

 Mus. N. H., iii, 1891, 327 (Corpus Christi, Texas, breeding). — Attwateb, 

 Auk, ix, ,1892, 343 (San Antonio, Texas, resident; food; location of nest, 

 • etc.).— Bailey (Florence M.), Handb. Birds W. U. S., 1902, 455, part. 



Lophophanes atrocristatvs Coues, Birds Col. Val., 1878, 116, footnote, part; Check 

 List, 2d ed., 1882, no. 42, part. — Eidgway, Nom. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 

 37, part. — Ragsdale, Bull. Nut. Orn. Club, vi, 1881, 114 (Texas range). — 

 Beown (N. C), Bull. Nut. Orn. Club, vii, 1882, 35 (Boerne, Kendall Co., 

 Texas, resident). 



L[ophophanes} airocristatus Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 265, part. 



Plarm] (Blaeolophus] ) atrocristaius Hellmayr, Tierreich, 18 Lief., Mar., 1903, 43, 

 part. 



BiEOLOPHUS INORNATUS INORNATUS (Gambel). 

 PLAIN TITMOUSE. 



Adults {sexes alike). — Above plain hair brown or light grayish 

 brown, becoming more distinctly brown and slightly olivaceous pos- 

 teriorly, especially on edges of rectrices; sides of head and under 



tinged with blackish; similar to B. bicolor, but forehead rusty brown or chestnut 

 instead of black. 



The castaneifrons type is connected with purely typical atricrisiatus sennetli on the 

 one hand and with the texensis type on the other, and the latter is similarly con- 

 nected with B. bicolor. 



« Ten specimens. 



6 Nine specimens. 



«I have not seen specimens from these two counties; possibly they may be refer- 

 able to the Rio Grande form (true B. atricristatus). 



d According to Ragadale (Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, vi, 1881, 114). 



