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LANGUEDOC TITMOUSE. 



(Parus narboniensis. ) 



PA. riifo griseis, vertice cano, alt's caudaque nigricantilus rufo 

 marginalis, remigibus primoribus margine albis. 



Reddish-grey Titmouse, with the crown hoary ; wings and tail 

 dusky, with rufous margins; primary quills edged with white. 



Parus narboniensis. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 1014. Lath. Ind. Orn. 

 2. 508. 19. 



La penduline. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 4. 453. 



Mesange de Languedoc. Buff. Pi. Enl. 708. f. 1. 



La pendulino, ou Canari sauvage. Hist. Prov. 1. 5l7. 



Languedoc Titmouse. Lath. Gen. Syn. 4. 547- 17. 



THIS species is almost as remarkable as the 

 preceding in respect to its nest, which is fixed on 

 a forked twig of the poplar, and is composed of 

 the downy parts of the flower of that tree : it is 

 only open on one side, and there is a kind of por- 

 tico erected over the entrance, as a security from 

 the wind and weather, which projects nearly an 

 inch from the sides : the nest is about the size and 

 shape of an Ostrich's egg. The bird is found in 

 Languedoc : it is four inches in length : the beak 

 is black, the upper mandible edged with yellow- 

 ish : top of the head grey: upper parts of the body 

 rufous grey : upper wing-coverts blackish, edged 

 with rufous : greater quills blackish, with whitish 

 edges : secondaries the same as the upper coverts, 

 but the tips paler : under parts of the body pale 

 rufous grey : tail black, with rufous edges : legs 

 lead-colour. 



