Titmouse. INSESSORES. PARUS. 235 



Plate 51. Fig. 1. Natural size. 



Bill black. Head, throat, and lower part of the neck. General 



black. Cheeks and ear-coverts white. On the nape of ^.^scnp- 



tion. 



the neck is a spot of white. Back olive-green. Rump 

 bluish-grey. Wing-coverts greyish-blue, tipped with 

 white. Quills greenish- grey, edged with pale greyish- 

 blue. Tail the same, having the exterior web of the 

 outer feather white. Breast and belly sulphur-yellow, 

 with a black hst or streak running down the mesial 

 line. Under tail-coverts white. Legs bluish-grey. 

 The colours in the female bird are the same, but they have 

 not the superior gloss that distinguishes the plumage of 

 the male. 



BLUE TITMOUSE. 



Parvs cceruleus, Linn. 

 PLATE LI. Fig. 2. 



Parus cceruleus, Linn. Syst. 1. p. 341. 5.—Gmel. Syst. 1. p. 1008. 5 — Raii 



Syn. p. 74. A. 4 Lath. Ind. Ornith. v. 2. p. 506. 12 — fVUl. p. 175. t. 43. 



—Briss- 3. p. 554. 2. 

 Le Mesange blaue, Buff. Ois. v. 5. p. 413 — Id. PL EnL 3. f. 2 — Temm. 



Man. d'Ornith. v. 1. p. 289. 

 Blaumeise, Bechst. Naturg. Deut. v. 3. p. 8G0 Meyer, Tasschenb. Deut. 



V. 1. p. 209 Frisch. t. 14. £ 1. A. 



Blue Titmouse, Br. Zool. 1. No. 103. t. 57. f. 2 — Arct. Zool. 2. p. 427- D. 



—Albin. 1. t. 47 Lath. Svn. 4. p. 543. 10 Will. (Angl.) p. 242. t. 43. 



—Mont. Ornith. Diet, v.' 2 Haye's Br. Birds, t. 38 Wale. Syn. 2. 



t. 245 Pult. Cat. Dorset, p. 10 — Betvick's Br. Birds, 1. p. t. 237. 



Provincial — Tomtit, Nun, Blue-Cap, Hickniall, Billy-Biter. 



The great abundance and very general dispersion of the 

 Blue Titmouse throughout Britain, have lessened the interest 

 its beautiful and delicate plumage in a species of rarer occur- 

 rence would, without doubt, have commanded. It is a bird 

 of very active and lively manners, continually engaged amidst 

 the branches and foliage of trees or bushes, in pursuit of in- 

 sects, and in this search its attitudes are most amusingly va- 



