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Definition of Tufted titmouse
1. Noun. Crested titmouse of eastern and midwestern United States.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tufted Titmouse
Literary usage of Tufted titmouse
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Popular Handbook of the Ornithology of Eastern North America by Thomas Nuttall (1896)
"tufted titmouse. PARUS BICOLOR. CHAR. Above, bluish ash; beneath, dull white;
flanks tinged with yellowish brown ; forehead black ; head conspicuously ..."
2. Birds of Village and Field: A Bird Book for Beginners by Florence Merriam Bailey (1898)
"... Peto Bird;' tufted titmouse : Parus bicolor. (See Fig. 77, p. 153.) Crest and
entire upper parts gray ; under parts white; sides washed with brown. ..."
3. The Second Book of Birds: Bird Families by Olive Thorne Miller (1901)
"In California, the mountain chickadee has habits about the same, and the Southern
States have the tufted titmouse. All these little fellows are pretty birds ..."
4. Indiana Authors: A Representative Collection for Young People by Minnie Olcott Williams (1916)
"... THE tufted titmouse WILLIAM WATSON WOOLLEN The range of the tufted titmouse
extends throughout the eastern United States, north to the Connecticut ..."
5. North American Birds Eggs by Chester Albert Reed (1904)
"Texan tufted titmouse, B. b. texensis. Similar to the last but with the forehead
brown instead of black. The habits and eggs of these birds do not differ ..."
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