274 TITMOUSE. 



July ; preys on flies of all kinds, and is fond of musquitoes, feeding 

 its young with them, but in winter subsists on berries and seeds, and 

 sometimes on the insides of juniper and pine buds, which it is said to 

 store up in autumn for that purpose; generally lays five eggs. Called 

 by the natives, Peche-ke-ke-shish ; has no note beyond a chirp. The 

 Anier. Orn. says, the female lays six white eggs, minutely speckled 

 with red ; has two broods in a year, first beginning of June, second 

 the end of July ; the whole family keep together during the winter : 

 both sexes nearly alike. 



36.— TOUPET TITMOUSE. 



Parus bicolor, Ind. Orn. ii. 567. Lin. i. 544. Gm. Lin. i. 1005. Faun. Groenl. 



125. 85. 

 Parus Carolinensis cristatus, Bris. iii. 5G1. Id. 8vo. i. 466. Klein, 86. 12. 



cristatus, bluish grey Titmouse, Bartr. Trav. 290. 



La Mesange huppee de la Caroline, Buf. v. 451. 



Crested Titmouse, Cates. Car. i. pi. 57. 



Toupet Titmouste, Gen. Syn. iv. 544. Arct. Zool. ii. No. 324. Shaw's Zool. x. p. 65. 



LENGTH six inches. Bill black ; irides dark brown ; lore 

 white; just over the bill a black spot; on the head a longish pointed 

 crest; this and the upper parts of the body deep grey, the under 

 reddish white, deeper on the sides; quills and tail edged with rufous 

 grey ; the latter nearly even at the end ; legs lead-colour. 



The female and young male differ, in having the belly and sides 

 nearly white; but over the thighs pale ferruginous cinnamon. 



Inhabits Carolina and Virginia, throughout the year; chiefly in 

 the woods; and feeds, like most others of the Genus, on insects; 

 rarely seen near houses. Not uncommon in Georgia, inhabiting 

 the swamps, and oak woods thereabouts, at all times. Said to build 

 the nest in a hollow tree in May, and to lay six white eggs, marked 

 with minute specks ; the first brood in the beginning of June, and 

 frequently another about the end of July. 



