. The birds of Illinois and Wisconsin . , p. : Eastern United States, west to the Great Plains and fromthe Gulf coast regularly north to Ohio, southern Illinois, andNebraska; casual or accidental to southern Minnesota, southern Wis-consin, and southern New York; breeds nearly throughout its : Crown with crest; forehead, black; rest of upper parts,wings and tail, gray, usually with a faint tinge of olive on the back; under parts, whitish or ashy white,tinged with chestnut brown on thesides and flanks. Sexes similar. Length, ; wing, ; tail,:^^ ; bill, .40. P^ Th
. The birds of Illinois and Wisconsin . , p. : Eastern United States, west to the Great Plains and fromthe Gulf coast regularly north to Ohio, southern Illinois, andNebraska; casual or accidental to southern Minnesota, southern Wis-consin, and southern New York; breeds nearly throughout its : Crown with crest; forehead, black; rest of upper parts,wings and tail, gray, usually with a faint tinge of olive on the back; under parts, whitish or ashy white,tinged with chestnut brown on thesides and flanks. Sexes similar. Length, ; wing, ; tail,:^^ ; bill, .40. P^ The Tufted Titmouse is an abun- dant resident in southern Illinois, butrather rare in the northern portionof the state. There is a single recordof its -occurrence in Wisconsin. Mr. F. M. Woodruff writes: Mr. J. Grafton Parker, Jr., observed one of these birds at South Chicago on October 15, 1897, and it is not uncommon during the fall and winter months at Kouts, Indiana, sixty miles southeast of Chicago. Mr. O. M. Schantz informs me that. 698 Field Museum of Natural History — Zoology, Vol. IX. early in the spring of 1900, before the trees were in leaf, he saw alarge flock of Tufted Titmice in the woods west of Riverside, Illinois.(Birds of the Chicago Area, 1907, p. 188.) There are specimens in the Field Museum collection from thenorthern half of the state, taken at Henry and Warsaw. Messrs. Kumlien and Hollister state: In the Museum of theUniversity of Wisconsin, there is a single specimen of the tufted tit,shot by Mr. N. C. Gilbert, December 15, 1900, near Madison. Thebird was alone, and this is doubtless the only record for the state.(Birds of Wisconsin, 1903, p. 124.^ The nest is in a hole in a dead tree. The eggs are 5 to 8 in number,pure white or creamy white, speckled with reddish brown, andmeasure about .70 x .55 inches. Genus PENTHESTES Reichenbach. 352. Penthestes atricapillus (Linn.).Chickadee. Parus atricapillus Linn., A. O. U. Check List, 1895, p. 307. Distr.: East
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