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BLACK-CAP TITMOUSE. 
drical, pendulous cones, which are longer than the leaves, and have their 
scales las. It grows in rich soil, in all parts of the United States from 
Canada to Virginia, and affords the best timber for masts, as well as for other 
purposes. In Britain, where it has long been planted, it is generally known 
by the name of Weymouth pine, or Lord Weymouth’s pine, from the name 
of the nobleman who introduced it. 
BLACK-CAP TITMOUSE. 
Parus atricapillus, Linn . 
PLATE CXXVI. — Male axd Female. 
The opinion generally entertained respecting the extensive dispersion of 
the Black-cap Titmouse, has in all probability originated from the great 
resemblance which it bears to the Carolina Titmouse, Parus Carolinensis , 
that species being now known to extend its spring and summer migrations 
as far eastward as the State of New Jersey, where it has been found breeding 
by my friend Edward Harris, Esq., of Moorestown. The Black-cap, on 
tli'e other hand, is rarely observed farther south, and then only in winter, 
when it proceeds as far as beyond the middle portions of Maryland, from 
whence I have at that season received specimens in spirits, collected by my 
friend Colonel Theodore Anderson of Baltimore. Westward of the 
Alleghanies it extends as far as Kentucky in winter, but at the approach of 
spring returns northward. In Pennsylvania and New Jersey some are 
known to breed; but as the Carolina Titmouse breeds there also, it is diffi- 
cult to say which of them is the most numerous, they being so like each 
other that one is apt to confound them. In the State of New York it is 
abundant, and often rears two broods in the season ; as you proceed eastward 
you may observe it in all places favourable to its habits ; and, according to 
Dr. Richardson, it is found as far north as lat. 65°, it being in the Fur 
Countries the most common bird, “a small family inhabiting almost every 
thicket.” None were seen by Mr. Townsend either on the Rocky Moun- 
tains or about the Columbia river, where, on the contrary, Parus Caroli- 
nensis is abundant, as it is also in the Texas, where I found it breeding in 
the spring of 1837. Although bearing a considerable resemblance to the 
