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that had been singing around his farm in Columbia County for 
a number of days. On going here on the evening of May 20 
the bird was immediately located and satisfactorily studied at 
close range with binoculars. The white edging to the long tail 
and line over eye are unmistakable. The specimen fell in a 
tangled mass of weeds and other debris on being shot, and the 
best efforts of three of us hunting for half an hour failed to 
locate it. 
Another pair took up quarters a mile away, near the east 
end of the Prairie du Sac bridge, just across the line in Dane 
County. Mr. Gastrow was also the first to find this second 
location, one of the birds singing off and on all day near where 
he happened to be working. My friends, Warner Taylor and 
S. Paul Jones, later studied the bird to good advantage at dif- 
ferent times and satisfied themselves as to its identity. 
Boeolophus bicolor (Tufted Titmouse). — This is another 
species that is extending its range northward, following the 
Cardinal. While the latter were entirely unknown here pre- 
vious to 1916, they are now one of the abundant residents of 
the river bottoms and adjacent regions. Therefore I was not 
surprised to hear the loud whistle of the Tufted Tit in the vil- 
lage of Prairie du Sac where the male of a pair was collected 
April 13, 1921. Two were heard calling in the river timber 
below Sauk City April 23. They have been reported and at 
least one taken at other points in southern Wisconsin recently 
also. Kumlien and Hollister (Birds of Wisconsin, 1903) say 
of this species, “A straggler from the south. In the museum 
of the University of Wisconsin there is a single specimen of 
the tufted tit, shot by Mr. N. C. Gilbert, December 15, 1900, 
near Madison. The bird was alone, and this is doubtless the 
only record for the state.” At the present rate of extension 
this interesting bird, as well as the Cardinal, should be com- 
mon in suitable localities in southern Wisconsin within a few 
years. 
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