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CRESTED TITMOUSE. 
that when their haunts are discovered, they wit 
be found equally abundant there, with our other 
species, in their proper localities. From personal 
observation we can say little regarding the habits 
of the Crested Titmouse ; we met with it only 
once, and that in a locality very different from 
that which has been hitherto assigned to it. It 
was in the apple orchards near Havre de Grace, 
where a small group, apparently a brood, were 
actively employing themselves, keeping together 
by a shrill call, and following each other in a 
tract ; they were extremely tame, allowing me to 
use stones, in the hope of procuring a specimen, 
and erecting and depressing their beautiful crest 
as they appeared to find any deposit of ova, or 
as one of the troop happened to agress upon 
another. It was in the beginning of November 
that those were seen, and it is possible that a 
partial migration may have thus, for a time, 
brought them so far from their usually recorded 
localities. They are known to occur over 
northern Europe, but we do not trace them beyond 
these bounds. Mr Hoy has stated to Mr Yar- 
rell that it prefers woods having a mixture of oak 
and pine, using the hollow oaks for its nest. 
Head crested, the longest feathers curving for- 
wards, they are black, broadly edged with white ; 
auriculars, throat, upper part of the breast, and a 
narrow collar to the occiput black, enclosing a 
white space in the region of the eyes, and on the 
sides of the neck. Upper parts yellowish brown. 
Quills and tail hair brown, outer webs edged 
