482 PARID.E. 



The Great Titmouse seems to be resident in most of the 

 places it frequents, but indications of its being subject to the 

 migratory impulse are here and there to be found, and such 

 have been noticed in England, though to a much less extent 

 than is the case with birds generally, the various species of 

 Titmouse excepted. 



The bill is black : the irides dusky brown : the top of the 

 head is black, with a greenish-blue gloss, a band of the same 

 colour descends each side of the neck behind the cheeks and 

 ear-coverts, which are white ; on the nape is a whitish spot, 

 which passes into yellowish-olive, and this becoming more 

 dusky prevails over the mantle ; rump and upper tail-coverts 

 bluish-grey ; lesser wing-coverts greyish-blue ; greater wing- 

 coverts bluish-black, edged with greyish-blue and broadly 

 tipped with yellowish-white, forming a conspicuous bar across 

 the wings ; quills bluish-black, those of the wing edged with 

 light greenish-blue, which is broadest on the tertials, those 

 of the tail darkest on the inner web and indistinctly barred 

 with a deeper shade ; the outer pair of tail-quills white on 

 the outer web, and at the tip of the inner web ; the chin and 

 throat glossy black, meeting the black band on the sides of 

 the neck and continued in a broad strijie along the mesial line 

 to the vent; the sides of the breast and belly, and the flanks, 

 dull sulphur-yellow ; lower wing-coverts dull white ; the 

 quills beneath, shining grey; lower tail-coverts white and 

 black : legs, toes and claws, lead-colour. 



The whole length is rather less than six inches. From 

 the carpal joint to the end of the fourth and longest primary, 

 two inches and seven-eighths : the third and fifth primaries 

 are nearly equal to the fourth. 



The female does not differ much from the male ; but her 

 colours are less bright, and the black stripe down the breast 

 and belly is not conspicuous. In the young the darker 

 colours are much more dingy and the white is tinged with 

 yellow. 



40° N. long. 48° W.), nearly half way between the Azores and tlie American 

 coast, but the Editor has not been able to consult the original authority for the 

 statement, which seems opeu to suspicion. 



