Florence Merriam Bailey says: "In Uvalde, Texas, I have seen this little Mexican stranger singing on the ridgepole of a village house. His black crest gave him a jaunty, dressed-up air, but withal he was the same winning, fluffy, domestic little body as the rest of his race. He sang a cheery abbreviation of the Peter Peter of his United States relatives — a Pete-Pete-Pete-Pete."
In the Chisos and Davis Mountains Mr. Bailey found the BLACK-CREST one of the most abundant birds of the upper Sonoran zone, flying about conspicuously among the junipers, nut pines and scrub oaks.
From southeastern Texas west to El Paso, south into Mexico.