52 CANADA TITMOUSE. 



the beak and spot over it as in the male : quills 

 dusky." 



Dr. Latham also mentions a variety which has 

 the breast of a beautiful crimson in lieu of orange : 

 this species also varies in the tail ; some having 

 only the four middle tail-feathers black ; the others 

 white, with the outer edges and tips black. 



Found in Norfolk Island, and Queen Charlotte's 

 Bay, New Zealand, in which latter place it is 

 called Mirro-Mirro. 



CANADA TITMOUSE. 

 (Parus atricapillus.) 



PA. pileo gulaque nigris, corpore cinereo subhts albo. 



Titmouse with the crown and throat black, body cinereous, 



beneath white. 

 Parus atricapillus. Lin. Syst. Nat. 1. 341. 6. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 



1. 10O8. Lath. Ind. Orn.2.566. }0.Briss. 3. 553. 6. t. 2Q. 



./! 

 La Mesange & tfete noire de Canada. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 4. 



408. 



Black-capt Titmouse. Wilson. Amer. Orn. 1. 135. pi. Q.f. 4. 

 Canada Titmouse. Pen. Arct. Zool. 2. 328. Lath. Gen. Syn. 



4. 548. 9. 



LENGTH four and a half inches : upper parts of 

 the head black : hind part of the neck, scapulars, 

 and lesser wing-coverts cinereous ; greater coverts 

 brown, with grey margins : quills brown, fringed 

 with whitish on the inner, and grey on the outer 



