Hab. Texas and Mexico. Spec. in Mus. Acad. Philad. and in the National Collection Washington city.
3. Lophophanes inornatus. (Gambel). The plain-crested Chickadee.
Parus inornatus. Gambel. Proc. Acad. Philada. II. p. 265, (Aug. 1845.)
Length about 5½ inches. Front, crest and entire plumage above cinereous, strongly inclining to olive, below uniform whitish, cinereous. Bill and legs lead-colored. Sexes alike.
Hab. California. Spec. in Mus. Acad. Philada.
Obs. A plainly-colored species abundant in California, easily recognized by the uniform cinereous color of its plumage.
4. Lophophanes Wollweberi. Bonaparte, Comptes rendus, Acad. Paris, xxxi. p. 478. (Sept. 1850.) The Texan Chickadee.
Parus annexus. Cassin, Proc. Acad. Philada. V. p. 103. (Oct. 1850.)
Lophophanes galeatus. Cabanis Cat. Heine’s coll. p. 90. (1851.)
Length (of skin) about 5 inches. Anterior feathers of crest, cinereous, succeeding and most elongated, black, others margined with white, short occipital feathers black. Throat black, line commencing behind the eye, thence curving and uniting with the space of the same color on the throat, black. Line above the eye running into the crest and around on the neck, white. Entire plumage above cinereous, tinged with olive, below ashy white, bill and feet dark.