Class II. BLUE TITMOUSE. 



yellow ifli green, divided in the middle by a bed of 

 black, which extends to the vent -, the rump is of 

 a bluilh grey. The quil-feathers are dufky, edged 

 partly with blue, partly with white : the coverts 

 blue ; the greater tipt with white. The exterior 

 fides of the outmoft feathers of the tail are white : 

 the exterior fides of the other bluifh : their inte- 

 rior fides duflcy : the legs lead color. Toes divided 

 to the origin ; and the back toe of the whole genus 

 very large and ftrong. 



39^ 



Belon av. 369. 



Parus cceruleus. Ge/her a^v. 



641. 

 Aldr. av. II 321. 

 Blue Titmoufe, or Nun. ^7/. 



cr?t. 242. 

 Raiifyn a=v. 74- 

 La Mefange Bleue. Bnj[fon 



rsj. III. 544. 



PL Enl. 3. f. 2. 



Parozolino, o Fratlno. Zinan, 



76. 

 Lin.fyJi.^A,^. 

 Blamees. Faun. Suec. fp. 



267. 

 Blaaemeife. Br. 288. 

 Blaumeife. Kram. 379. Fri/ch, 



I. 14. 



163. Blue, 



Blava fnitza, Blau mandlitz. Br. Zool. 114. plate W. f. 5 

 Scopoliy No. 244. 



THIS bird frequents gardens, and does great 

 injury to fruit trees, by bruifing the young 

 buds in fearch of the infeds that lurk under them •, 

 it breeds in holes of walls, and lays about twelve 

 or fourteen eggs. 



It is a very beautiful fpecies, the bill is fhort 

 and dufky : the crown of the head of a fine blue: 

 from thq bill to the eyes is a black line : the 



forehead 



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