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whistling song much like that of the Cardinal [Cardinalis virginianusY ®- Though 

 several nests with young have been found, no eggs have as yet been taken. 



The specimens of L. atricristatus which were first described by Cassin were 

 obtained in Texas by J. W. Audubon in 1850 ; but until comparatively recent times the 

 bird has been very little known. 



2. Lophophanes wollweberi. 



Lophophanes wollweberi, Bp. Compt. Rend. xxxi. p. 478 ' ; Scl. P. Z. S. 1858, p. 299 ', 1859, p. 373' ; 

 Baird, Rev. Am. B. i. p. 79^ Sumichrast, Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H. i. p. 544'; Baird, 

 Brew. & Ridgw. N. Am. B. i. p. 93" ; Coues, B. Col. Vail. i. p. 117'. 



Parus annescus, Cass. Pr. Ac. Phil. v. p. 103, t. 1". 



Lophophanes galeatus. Cab. Mus. Hein. i. p. 90 °. 



Supra olivaceo-cinereus, vertice dorso concolori undique nigro margmata, crista elongata, stria postoeulari 

 cum gula nigra conjuncta et torque nuchalL nigris ; fronte, superoiliis usque ad pectus productis et genis 

 albis ; subtus griseo-albescens ; rostro nigro, pedibus obscure corylinis. Long, tota 4-8, alse 2-6, caudae 

 2-4, rostri a rictn 0-45, tarsi 0-67. (Desor. maris ex La Parada, Mexico. Mus. nostr.) 



Hob. South-western United States, Arizona, New Mexico, and Western Texas ^. — 

 Mexico, La Parada ^ and Talea^ [Boucard), Mountains of San Diego, Orizaba 

 {Sumichrast% Tierra fria {le Strange). 



This is a well-marked species of rather limited range, being found only in Arizona, 

 New Mexico, and Western Texas ^ within the boundary of the United States, and 

 again in Mexico in the highlands of the States of Vera Cruz and Oaxaca, as well as 

 in the vicinity of the city of Mexico. It is doubtless found in many parts of the 

 intermediate country, of the ornithology of which we know so little. Like Parus 

 meridionalis it appears to be in Mexico an inhabitant of high ground, Prof. Sumichrast 

 haviDg observed it in the alpine region at an elevation of over 6000 feet above the 



sea 



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Observers in the United States describe L. wollweberi as gregarious in habits, going 

 about in flocks of twenty-five or more individuals '^. Its nest and eggs have not been 

 discovered up to the present time. 



It is somewhat remarkable that the three names ^ ^ ^ bestowed upon this species all 

 appeared within a few weeks of one another. That proposed for it by Bonaparte 

 {L. wollweberi) has always been accepted, and has probably a slight priority. 



PAEUS. 



Parus, Linnseus, Syst. Nat. i. p. 341 (1766) (partim). 



Of this well-known genus one species enters our limits, being found exclusively in 

 the high mountains of Southern Mexico. The genus itself (including Poecile) contains 

 about fifty species, and is one of wide range, extending throughout the Palsearctic and 



