The Tufted Titmouse on Staten Island, N. Y.— I shot a specimen 

 of this species (^Lofhofhanes btcolor) on the 24th of August, i88i, in a 

 thick wood, a few miles south of Port Richmond, a small town on the 

 north shore of Staten Island, N. Y.— Daniel E. Moran, Brooklyn, N. T. 



BulLN.O.O. 7,Jan,1882, p. *>'JL . 



Dutcher, Rare Long Island Birds. 



Parus bicolor. Tufted Titmouse. —This specimen was also procured 

 bj Mr. Akhurst in the second growth on the East-side lands within the 

 ; city limits of Brooklyn; he states that during his active collecting he saw 

 la number of these birds. It is such a noisy species that any individuals 

 in a locality are sure to attract the collector by their outcry. 



Auk X. Juiy, 1893 u 277. 



~ Parus bicolor. Tufted Titmouse. — I prize nothing which I have in 

 my collection more liighly than I do a fine male of this species, which 

 was taken just south of Ilolley, March 17, 1889, by Mr. Fred C. Lusk. 

 This bright bird would be a charming addition to our regular avi fauna, 

 but I know of no other records of its occurrence in this or adjoining 

 counties. 



In the foregoing notes, I liave only made mention of some of the rarer 

 birds which have been taken in Orleans County, but there yet remain 

 unreported several unusual occurrences for this section which should 

 become matters of record, and Avhich, at some later day perhaps, I may 

 report to your valuable journal. Some of these occurrences are fully as 

 rare as any mentioned aboye, but as yet lack the authentic and complete 

 corroboration which I hope to attach to them after further investigation. 

 — Neil F. Posson, Med/ua, N. T. Ank, XVI, A.pril, 1899, p^o.'?3-^- 



Parus bicolor. The Tufted Titmouse is observed so infrequently on 

 Long Island that it is considered proper to place the following note of its 

 occurrence on record. I heard and saw an individual of this species at 

 Sheepshead Bay on March 14 and 15, 1898. A thick grove of cedars, 

 almost impenetrable in many places by reason of thick underbrush and 

 cat-briar, stands, or then stood, on the edge of the salt-meadows at that 

 place. Here, on the date first mentioned I saw Crows, Goldfinches, 

 White-throated and Song Sparrows, Robins, Purple Crackles, one Red- 

 winged Blackbird, Myrtle Warblers and one Golden-winged Woodpecker. 

 My attention was attracted by the clear, whistled note of what I at once 

 recognized as the Tufted Titmouse. I heard intermittently for about a 

 quarter of an hour the series of notes, which sound like fHul-you, p'eiel- 

 you, feiel-you, but did not succeed in getting sight of the singer. Wishing 

 to confirm what I considered a rare find for Long Island, I returned the 

 next day. The bird was still there and singing, and without much trouble, 

 by imitating the song, I coaxed him out of the thicket into plain sight. 

 No doubt existed in my mind as to the identification, as I am familiar 

 with the songs of the bird and its appearance in life. Giraud in his ' Birds 

 of Long Island' (1844), wrote as though Parus bicolor were, common 

 at that time. It is also included in Lawrence's ' List.' But one specimen, 

 bearing no date, is extant in the Long Island Historical Society's collection 

 (Dutcher, Auk, X, 1893, p. 277). I consider it a very rare straggler 

 on Long Island. 



Auk, XIX, April., 1902, p-p- >h2-I^'^ 



