594- 



LONG TAILED TITMOUSE. Class II. 



v66. Long Belou a-u. 368. 

 Tailed. Parus caudatus. Ge/ner av. 

 642. 

 Montkola. Aldr. a^. W. 319. 

 Wil. or 71. 242. 

 Rait fyn. a<v. 74. 

 Pendolino, Paronzino. Ztnan, 



77- 

 Gaugartza. Scopoli, No. 247. 



La Mefange a longue queue, 

 Parus longicaudus. Brijfoa 

 a'v, IIL 570. 



Ltn. fyft. 342. 



Alhtita. Faun, Suec. fp, 85. 



Belzmeife Pfannenftiel. Kram. 



379- 

 Langfchwaentzige Meife. 

 Frifch, L 14. 



Bescrip. /npHE length is five inches and a quarter; the 

 •*- breadth feven inches. The bill is black, 

 very fhort, thick, and very convex, differing great- 

 ly from all others of the titmoufe kind : the bafe 

 is befet with fmall briftles : the irides are of a hazel 

 color. The top of the head, from the bill to the 

 hind part, is white, mixed with a few dark grey 

 feathers ; this bed of white is entirely furrounded 

 with a broad ilroke of black, which, rifing on 

 each fide the upper mandible, pafTes over each eye, 

 unites at the hind part of the head ; and continues 

 along the middle of the back to the rump : the 

 feathers on each fide of this black ftroke are of a 

 purpliili red, as are thofe immediately incumben^t 

 on the tail. The covert feathers of the wings are 

 black : the fecondary and quil-feathers are duiky, 

 the largeft of the latter are wholly fo ; the Icfler and 

 more remote have their exterior fides edged with 

 white^ 



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