GREAT-HEADED TITMOUSE. 51 



low : under parts of the body grey : legs and 



claws brown : both sexes are similar. Inhabits 

 Virginia. 



GREAT-HEADED TITMOUSE. 

 (Parus macrocephalus.) 



PA. niger, abdomine albido, pectore sub/ulvo, fronte maculaquc 



alarum albis. 

 Black Titmouse, with the abdomen white, breast slightly fulvous, 



forehead and spot on the wings white. 

 Parus macrocephalus. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 1013. Lath. Ind. 



Om. 2. 571.26. 

 Great-headed Titmouse. Lath. Gen. Syn. 4. 557- 24. t. 55. 



THIS singular looking bird is figured and thus 

 described by Dr. Latham. " It is in length four 

 inches and a half: beak small, pale, and furnished 

 with a few weak bristles at the base : the head 

 very full of feathers, appearing very dispropor- 

 tionate to the size of the bird : the head, neck, 

 and back, dusky black : on the forehead, just over 

 the beak, a spot of white : on the wing a bar of 

 white : the breast is orange ; the rest of the under 

 parts buff yellow, with a mixture of black on the 

 thighs : the tail is long and rounded in shape ; 

 the colour of it black ; the two outer feathers 

 white, with the ends black, divided obliquely; the 

 next white within near the tip : legs dusky brown : 

 female is pale brown above : all beneath yellow : 



