April 1888.J 



AWD OOLOaiST. 



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Till- Audubon Monument. 



The New 1 ork Academy ol Sciences, acting 

 in cooperation with other scientific associations 

 of New Yov]i and the American Ornithol- 

 ogists' Union, proposes to erect a monument to 

 John James Audubon, whose remains rest in 



Trinity Church Cemetery, New Yorls ,City. A 

 design substantantially as represeBted in the 

 accompanying engraving, has hfiin selected. 

 The ornamentation, laowever,-' will all be 

 changed to represent animals ^nd plants, with 

 which Audubon was familiM-, selected for the 

 most part from the plate/ in his magnificent 

 books. The estimated cost of this monument is 

 about 110,000, which t^ committees of the co- 

 operating societfes wj/h to raise by a general 

 subscription, hopinpf- indeed, that all American 

 naturalists of wha,tevei- branch of study, shall 

 be represented. Xhus, it large number of small 

 subscriptions is more desired than a limited 

 number of lar^e coiiti ilmtiiins., and rather than 

 planning to/'-aise the « liole s\(rn neoessaiy in 

 New York/jity, it is wished thattfie enterprise 

 take a m(jre national character. Sb^scriptions 

 from 25/cents to §100.00 have been't'eceived. 

 Contributions should be sent to Dr. N. Brit- 

 ton, '.^-easurer, Columbia College, New York 

 ChyJ by whom they will be promptly 'a.c- 

 knofcledged, and the names of the donors wiH^ 

 be permanently recorded in the published 

 Ti'ansactions of the Academy of Sciences. 



Nesting of the Tufted Titmouse. 



BY E. B. MCLAUGHLIN, STATESVILLE, N. C. 



Though the Tufted Titmouse (Lophophanes 

 bicolor), is quiet in late autumn and early win- 

 ter, I have heard hira singing as blithely in the 

 month of December as though the time of his 

 honoymoon were at hand. 



Apparently much amity subsits between the 

 Tufted Tit and his sociable little kinsman, our 

 Tomtit (Paras carolinensis) . In fall and winter 

 these two species may often be seen feeding to- 

 gether, and from the perfect harmony and lisp- 

 ing chatter, one would infer that either has an 

 insight into the nature and lingo of his fellow. 



The I'utted Titmouse may be called an abun- 

 dant resident with us, and, at nesting time, one 

 can stroll out in the early niornhrg and hear 

 perhaps a score or more of them singing within 

 their respective beats. Perliaps there is no 

 other bird which breeds so abundantly in the 

 South Atlantic States, whose eggs are such de- 

 siderata, and this is owing to the fact that its 

 n( i» ^(nn(\\hat dlflnoult to find, and several 

 reasons may be assigned why such is the case. 



The bird builds in a natural cavity of a tree, 

 hence the newly cut hole, with chips scattered 

 on the ground beneath, which point like treach- 

 erous sign-boards to the home of the woodpeck- 

 er, are here absent ; and, in short, there is not 



