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PARUS FRINGILLAGO. THE OX-EYE TIT. 



GREAT TITMOUSE. OX-EYE. GREAT BLACK-HEADED TOM TIT. 

 BLACK-CAP. 



Fig. 181. 



Parus major, Linn. Syst. Nat. I. 341. 



Parus major. Lath. Ind. Orn. 11. 562. 



Great Titmouse. Mont. Orn. Diet. 



Mesange Charbonni^re. Parus major. Temm. Man. d'Orn. I. 287. 



Great Titmouse. Parus major. Selb. Illustr. L 233. 



Parus major. Great Titmouse. Jen. Brit. Vert. An. 12L 



The head, fore part of the necJc, a transverse hand on its sides, 

 and a longitudinal hand on the hreast and ahdomen, hlack ; 

 cheeks white ; hack yellowish green ; breast and sides yellow. 



Male. — The Greater Tit, although the chief of its clan, is a 

 small bird, not so large as a Robin, but of a stoutish form, 

 active, lively, and courageous. Its body is short and ovate, 

 the neck short, the head of moderate size and oblong. The 

 bill is short, straight, sub-conical, being but little compressed ; 

 both mandibles with their dorsal outline a little convex, that 

 of the lower more so, the ridge obtuse, the sides convex, the 

 edges sharp, the tips rather obtuse but thin-edged. Both man- 



