CREEPING TITMOUSE. 

 (Parus americanus.) 



PA. ccerulescenS) temporibus pectore dorsoquejla'cescentibus, hypo- 



chondriis purpurascentibus. 

 Blue Titmouse, with the temples, breast, and back yellowish, 



sides of the body purplish. 

 Parus americanus. Lin. St/st. Nat. 1. 341. 4. GmeL Si/st. Nat. 



1. 10O7. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2, 571. 28. 

 Ficedula carolinensis cinerea. Briss. 3. 522. 66* 

 Creeping Titmouse. Penn. Arct. Zool. 2. 326. Lath. Gen. Syn. 



4. 558. 27. 



THE Creeping Titmouse is found in various 

 parts of North America : it is the size of the White- 

 throat : the upper mandible of its beak is brown ; 

 the under one yellow : head blue : above and 

 beneath the eye a white spot : upper part of the 

 back yellowish green : rest of the upper parts 

 dusky blue : quills blackish, within white, mar- 

 gined with blueish ash-colour: wing-coverts spotted 

 with white, forming two bands of that colour on 

 the wings : throat yellow : neck with a half collar 

 of a black colour : breast bright yellow : belly 

 white : sides sprinkled with reddish spots : tail 

 dusky black : the two middle feathers blueish; the 

 rest margined with the same ; the two outer ones 

 with a white spot towards the tip : legs yellowish: 

 female variegated with black and brown. 



