GREAT TITMOUSE. 37 



conquer a bird they always pierce a hole in the 

 skull and eat the brains, which they will also do, 

 if they find one that has recently died : they are 

 very partial to flesh, particularly fat, which they 

 eat with the greatest avidity: their principal food 

 consists of insects, which they obtain in the spring 

 by biting oft" the opening buds*, and in the summer 

 by searching in cracks and crevices of trees. 



These birds are found over all parts of the old 

 world, and many of them throughout the Ame- 

 rican continent and West-Indian islands ; also in 

 New Zealand, and other islands in the Pacific 

 Ocean. 



GREAT TITMOUSE. 

 (Parus major.) 



PA. tiridi-olh-uceus subtiis Jlavescens, capite nigro, temporibus 

 albis, nucha lutea. 



Olive-green Titmouse, beneath yellowish, with the head black, 

 temples white, and top of the neck yellowish. 



Parus major. Lin, Syst. Xat. 1. 341. 3. Lin. Faun. Suec. 265. 

 Gmel. Syst. Xat. 1. 1003. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 562. 1. 

 Briss. 3. 539. 1. 



La grosse Mesange, ou Charbonniere. Buff". Hist. Nat. Ois. 5. 

 392. 17. Buff: PL Enl.3.f. 1. 



Great Titmouse. Penn. Brit. Zoo/. 1. 162. Penn. Arct. ZooL 

 2. 425. A.Albin. 1.46. Lath. Gen. Syn. 4. 636. I. Be- 

 wick. Brit. Birds. 1. 237. Mont. Brit. Birds. 2. Don. Brit. 

 Birds. 1. 16. Levin. Brit. Birds. 3. 121. Hayes. Brit. Birds, 

 t. 33. 



* By doing which they are in fact beneficial, and not, as is 

 generally supposed, detrimental to the horticulturist. 



