40 BLUE TITMOUSE. 



forming a stripe across the wing : quills brown : 

 primaries with the inner edge white, the outer 

 blue: tips of all white: back and rump pale blue: 

 upper tail-coverts deep blue, with white tips : tail 

 blue, with the outer edges of the feathers whitish, 

 increasing in width to the exterior feather, which 

 has the whole of the outer web white : legs and 

 claws black: inhabits the northern parts of Europe 

 in great abundance, particularly in the forests of 

 Siberia and Russia : it is migratory, as it is only 

 found in the neighbourhood of St. Petersburgh in 

 the winter, most probably coming from the north : 

 it twitters like the Sparrow, but is much more 

 agreeable. 



BLUE TITMOUSE. 

 (Parus caeruleus.) 



PA, olivaceo virescens subtus lutcus, remigibus ccerulescentibus, 



primoribus margine exteriore albis^fronte alba, rertice cceruleo. 

 Olive-green Titmouse, beneath yellowish, with the quills blue, 



the outer margin of the primaries white, forehead white, and 



crown blue. 

 Parus cseruleus. Lyn. Syst. Nat. 1. 341. 5. Lin. Faun. Suec. 



267.Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. ICOS.Briss. 3. 544. 2. Lath. Ind. 



Orn. 2. 566. 12. 

 La Mesange bleue. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 5. 413. Buff. PI. 



Enl. 3.f. 2. 



Blue Titmouse. Penn. Brit. Zool. 1. 163. t. 5f.f. 2. Penn. Arct. 

 . Zool. 2. 427. 8. Albin. Birds. 1.47. Lath. Gen. Syn. 4. 543. 



10. Bewick. Brit. Birds. 1. 23p. Mont. Brit. Birds. 1. 



Mont. Sup. Shaw. Nat. Misc. 138. Don. Brit. Birds. 57. 



L&win. Brit. Birds. 3. 120. 



