JAPAN TITMOUSE. 55 



IN length six inches : plumage above dusky : 

 sides of the head, and orbits of the eye, white j 

 neck on each side with a stripe of the same colour: 

 hind head with a white spot: chin, throat, and 

 breast, black : belly dirty white : quills brown : 

 tail black : the outer web of the exterior feathers 

 white ; the next to it tipped with white : legs 

 black. Inhabits the Cape of Good Hope. De- 

 scribed by Dr. Latham. 



JAPAN TITMOUSE. 

 (Parus japonicus.) 



PA. gula ft capite nigris, nucha fascia alba vel lutea, dorso cinc- 



reo, subtus alba. 

 Titmouse with a black head and throat, white or yellowish 



band on the nape, ash-coloured back, and under parts of the 



body white. 



Parus palustris. y. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 565. p. 

 Marsh Titmouse. Lath. Gen. Syn. 4. 542. 8. B. N 



TAKEN off the coast of Japan, and described as 

 a variety of the Marsh Titmouse by Dr. Latham, 

 which it is very much like, but differs chiefly in 

 having a black chii\ and coloured nape ; all the 

 rest of the under parts of the body white : one 

 sex has the whole head black, with a white band 

 across the hind part : the other has the top of the 

 head only black, with the nape yellowish. 



