. Key to North American birds. Containing a concise account of every species of living and fossil bird at present known from the continent north of the Mexican and United States boundary, inclusive of Greenland and lower California, with which are incorporated General ornithology: an outline of the structure and classification of birds; and Field ornithology, a manual of collecting, preparing, and preserving birds. Birds; Birds; 1887. PARIBJS — PAIUK2E : TITMICE. 265. 43. L. atrocrista'tus. (Lat. airo, with black, crisf^f/rs, crested; o'wto, a crest.) Black-crestet> Titmouse. $ 9 , adult: P
. Key to North American birds. Containing a concise account of every species of living and fossil bird at present known from the continent north of the Mexican and United States boundary, inclusive of Greenland and lower California, with which are incorporated General ornithology: an outline of the structure and classification of birds; and Field ornithology, a manual of collecting, preparing, and preserving birds. Birds; Birds; 1887. PARIBJS — PAIUK2E : TITMICE. 265. 43. L. atrocrista'tus. (Lat. airo, with black, crisf^f/rs, crested; o'wto, a crest.) Black-crestet> Titmouse. $ 9 , adult: Pluinlieous, with a shade of olive, the wings and tail rather darker and purer, edged with the color of the back, or a more hoary shade of the same. Beneath, ditll ashy-whitish, especially on the breast, the aljdtimcu whiter, the sides chestnut-brown as in L. bicolor. Extreme forehead and lores whitish ; entire crest glossy black. Bill blackish-plum- beous; feet plumbeous. Small: length al)out .; wing and tail Valley of the Eio Grande. Nest in natural cavities of trees, usually including cast snake-skins among its materi- als ; eggs X , white, spotted with reddish-bro^vn in fine d(,)ts over the general surface, boldly l)lutched at large end, but not distinguishable from those of L. hicolor. 43. L. woUweb'eri. (To one Wollweber. Fig. 137.) Bridled Titmouse. $ 9, adult: Upper parts olivaceous-ash, wings and tail darker, edged "with the color of the back, or even a brighter tint, sometimes nearly as yellowish as in Regulus. Under parts sordid ashy-white. Crest black, with a central field like the back. Whole throat black, as in species of Parus. A black line runs behind the eye and curves down over the auriculars, distin- JSHi"^'! guished from the black of the crest and throat by the white of -T'S^y -^^"^ the side of the head and white superciliary stripe; a half-collar of black on the nape, descending on the sides of the neck, there i- «;"
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