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Genus 2. — PARUS. — Linnceus. 



Generic Character.— HM strong-, short, hard, subcotiio, and slightly com. 

 pressed; nostrils basal and round, covered with reflected nuclial bristles; 

 leg-s strong ; toes divided to their origin ; hallux furnished with a long 

 hooked claw; quills of medium length, or almost deficient; the second 

 shorter than the third ; fourth and fifth longest. 



Section I.— Having the first quill feathers of medium length. Inhabitants 

 of woods. 



Parus major. — The Great Titmouse. Plate xxxiii. fig. 12. Back olive, 

 green ; rump and wing-coverts gray, the latter tipped with white ; head, 

 throat, and lower part of the neck, black ; cheeks and ear-coverts white ; tail 

 grayish-green, edged with slate-gray ; breast and abdomen sulphur- yellow, 

 with a black streak running down the mesial line ; under tail. coverts white ; 

 legs blue.gray. Length, five and a half inches. Inhabits Europe. See gen- 

 feral description of their habits, vol. iii. 2,57. 



Parus cmruleus. — The Blue Titmouse. Plate xxxiii. fig. 11. Back grayish- 

 blue, tinged with green ; under parts pale-yellow ; crown of the head azure- 

 blue ; front, list over the eyes, and cheeks white ; ophthalmic streak black; 

 nape and gular collar azure-blue ; wings and tail pale Antwerp blue; the 

 greater coverts tipped with white ; legs and feet slate-colour. Four inches 

 and a half long. Inhabits Europe. 



Para«;jnfe,5?rM.— The Marsh-Titmouse. Plate xxxiii. fig. 13. Upper parts 

 yellowish-gray; breast and abdomen white, tinged with pale yellowish- 

 brown ; head, nape, and neck, purplish-black ; cheeks cream.yellow ; legs 

 gray. Four inches and a half long. Inhabits Europe. 



Section II. — The first quill feathers very short, or altogether wanting. 



Parus hiarrnicus.— The Bearded-Titmouso. Plate xxxiii. fig. U. Nape and 

 back yellow-brown, tinged with orange ; abdomen and epigastrium pale 

 fawn-colour ; head, neck, and breast, blue-gray, the latter tinged with lilac ; 

 bill orange-yellow ; irides gamboge-yellow ; base of the bill furnished with 

 mustaches of loose pendant feathers ; scapulars wood-brown ; quills black- 

 Ish.gray, edged with white, secondaries edged with orangebrown ; tail long, 

 cuneiform, orange-brown ; exterior feathers edged and tipped with white ; 

 legs and feet black. Six inches long. Inhabits Europe. 



Genus 3.— EMBERIZ A.— ii'wnffay. 

 Generic Character. — Bill conical, strong, hard, and sharp-pointed ; edges 

 of both mandibles inflected, and compressed towards the point ; upper man- 

 dible narrower and more acute than the under one, its roof furnished with 

 a hard bony knob ; nostrils basal, round, partly hidden by small feathers at 

 tlie base of the bill; toes entirely divided ; hallux with a short or produced 

 bent claw ; tail forked or slightly rounded. 



Section I. — Claws of the hallux short and hooked. 



Emben'za citrinella. Tho Yellow Bunting. Plate xxxiv. fig. 2. Describ- 

 ed, vol. iii. p. 259. 



Section II. — Claws of hallux produced, and slightly bent. 

 Emberiza paradisea. — The Whidah Bunting. Plate xxxiv. fig. I. V>e. 

 scribed, vol. iii. p. 283. 



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