_Parus bicolor_, LINN. Syst. Nat. 12th ed. I, 1766, 340 (based on _Parus cristatus_, CATESBY, I, pl. lvii).—PR. MAX. Cab. Jour. VI, 1858, 118. _Lophophanes bicolor_, BON. List Birds Europe, 1842.—BAIRD, Birds N. Am. 1858, 384; Review, 78.—SCLATER, Catal. 1861, 14, no. 87. _Bæolophus bicolor_, CAB. Mus. Hein. I, 1850, 91 (type of genus). _Lophophanes missouriensis_, BAIRD, Birds N. Am. 1858, 384 (var. from Missouri River). Figures: WILSON, Am. Orn. I, pl. viii, fig. 5.—AUD. Orn. Biog. I, pl. ccci; IB. Birds Am. II, pl. cxxv. SP. CHAR. Above ashy; a black frontal band. Beneath dull whitish; sides brownish-chestnut, of more or less intensity. Length, 6.25 inches; wing, 3.17. HAB. United States, from Missouri Valley eastward. [Illustration: _Lophophanes inornatus._] Feathers of the crown elongated into a flattened crest, which extends back as far as the occiput. Bill conical; lower edge of upper mandible nearly straight at the base. Fourth and fifth quills equal; third a little shorter than seventh; second rather shorter than the secondaries. Tail nearly even, the outer about .20 of an inch shorter than the longest. Upper parts ash-color, with a tinge of olivaceous. Forehead dark sooty-brown. The feathers of the upper part of the head and crest obscurely streaked with lighter brown. Under parts of head and body, sides of head, including auriculars, and a narrow space above the eye, dirty yellowish-white, tinged with brown; purest on the side of head, the white very distinct in the loral region, and including the tuft of bristly feathers over the nostrils, excepting the tips of those in contact with the bill, which are blackish. The sides of the body and the under tail-coverts are tinged with yellowish-brown. The quills and tail-feathers are edged with the color of the back, without any whitish. Bill black. Feet lead-color. Specimens from the West are larger, the colors all more strongly marked. HABITS. The Tufted Titmouse is a common and well-known species in the Southern States, from the seaboard to the Rocky Mountains. Its northern limits are in Pennsylvania, Missouri, and Kansas. Farther north than this its occurrence appears to be only occasional and accidental. The statement of Mr. Audubon that they are found in the Northern States, even to Nova Scotia, was evidently a mistake. They do not occur in Massachusetts, nor, so far as I am aware, have they been met with in any part of New England. They are abundant in Northern Georgia, where, according to the observations of Dr. Gerhardt, they are among the first birds to breed, having fledglings fully grown as early as the first of May. Dr. Woodhouse found them very common in the Indian Territory, but none of the other exploring parties met with it farther west, where it is replaced by its kindred species.