. Birds of the Colorado valley ... scientific and popular information concerning North American ornithology;. Birds. 118 HISTORY OF THE BRIDLED TITMOUSE WOLLWEBER'S Titmouse came to us with letters of in- troduction from tbree very eminent ornithologists, all written in 1850, and so nearly simultaneously that it is a close question of actual priority. The Prince Bonaparte named it in honor of Wollweber in the issue of the " Gomptes Eendus " dated September, 1850. Mr. Cassin described it as Parm an- nexus in the "Proceedings" of the Philadelphia Academy for October, 1850; an
. Birds of the Colorado valley ... scientific and popular information concerning North American ornithology;. Birds. 118 HISTORY OF THE BRIDLED TITMOUSE WOLLWEBER'S Titmouse came to us with letters of in- troduction from tbree very eminent ornithologists, all written in 1850, and so nearly simultaneously that it is a close question of actual priority. The Prince Bonaparte named it in honor of Wollweber in the issue of the " Gomptes Eendus " dated September, 1850. Mr. Cassin described it as Parm an- nexus in the "Proceedings" of the Philadelphia Academy for October, 1850; and it must have been close upon this date that Dr. Cabanis published a description under the name of Loplwphanes galeatus, adopting the term from Prof. Lichtenstein's museum name, Parus galeatus. For, though the whole Theil of the " Museum Heineanum " which treats of the Singvogel is dated 1850-1, it was published iu sheets, and not furnished with an introduction until October, 1851, and the name occurs on the second page of the twelfth "signature", the fourteenth of which bears date January, 1851. No one, however, appears to dispute Bonaparte's actual precedence in the matter. Mr. Cassin figured the bird with his description. The following year, 1851, Professor Westermann also gave a figure in the "Bijdragen tot de Dierkunde"; for the third time it was re- figured by Professor Baird, in the Mexican Boundary Survey Eeport; a fifth illustration is found in Dr. Cooper's work; a sixth in my " Key "; and a seventh in the " History of Isorth American Birds". The curious striping of the head is a specific character which immediately attracts attention, and one well adapted to pictorial illustration. The figure here given, reproduced from the " Key", is a copy (none too good) of the FIG. 19.âHead of Bridled head of that iu the Mexican Boundary Titmouse. EcpOrt. This elegant little species is better known stuffed than alive; t
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