66 PENDULINE TITMOUSE. 



This species has a very singular flight, frequently 

 folding up its wings : it is very abundant in many 

 parts of the United States of America : it builds 

 its nest in hollow trees early in May, laying six 

 pure white eggs, sprinkled with extremely small 

 red spots, near the larger end : it generally feeds 

 on insects, but when captured and confined in a 

 cage it will eat hemp-seed, cherry-stones, apple- 

 seeds, and similar substances, if broken in small 

 pieces : it soon becomes very familiar, but if placed 

 in a wooden cage soon effects its escape. 



PENDULINE TITMOUSE. 

 (Parus pendulinus. ) 



PA. capite subferrugineo, fascia oculari nigra y remigibus rectrici- 



busquejiiscis margine utroquejerrugineo. 

 Titmouse with a subferruginous head, black fascia beneath the 



eye, quills and tail-feathers brown, margined on each side with 



rust-colour. 

 Parus pendulinus. Lin. Syst. Nat. 1. 342. 13. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 



1. 1O14. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 568. 18. 



Parus polonicus, sive pendulinus. Briss. 3. 565. 11. t. IQ.f. 2. 

 Mesange de Pologne, Remiz. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 5. 423. 



Buff. PL EnL 618. f. 3. 



Mountain Titmouse. Albin. Birds. 3. 57- male and female. 

 Penduline Titmouse. Coxe's Travels. 1.218. Lath. Gen. Syn. 



4. 547.. 16. 



IN size equal to the Blue Titmouse : beak ash- 

 coloured : front of the head whitish ; hind part 

 and neck ash-coloured: forehead black, which 



