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and collar deep azure blue. Back greyish blue, with a 

 tinge of green. Wings pale Berlin blue, having the 

 greater coverts tipped with white. Tail pale blue. 

 Throat and list down the middle of the belly deep 

 Scotch blue. Breast and sides sulphur-yellow. Legs 

 and toes bluish-grey. 

 The female resembles the male bird, except that the list 

 down the belly is not so well defined. 



MARSH TITMOUSE. 



Parus palustris, Linn. 

 PLATE LI. Fig. 4. 



Parus palustris, Linn. Svst. L p. 341. 8 — Gmel. Syst. 1. p. 1009. sp. 8 — 



Lath. Ind. Ornith. v. 2. p. 565. sp. Q.—Raii Syn. p. 73. A. 3 Will. 



p. 175. t. 43 Briss. 3. p. 555. 7- 



Parus atricapillus, Gmel. Syst. 1. p. 1008. sp. 6 Lath. Ind. Ornith. v. 2. 



p. 566. sp. 10. 

 La Nonnette cendree, Bnff. Ois. v. 5. p. 403— /c?. PI. Enl. 3. f. 3. 

 Le Mesange a tete noir du Canada, Buff. Ois. v. 5. p. 408. 

 Mesange Nonnette, Temm. Man. d'Ornith. v. 1. p. 291. 

 Sumpfmeise, Bechst. Naturg. Deut. v. 3. p. 874. — Meyer, Tasschenb. Deut. 



V. 1. p. 271 Frisch, t. 13. f. 2. B. 



Marsh Titmouse or Black-Cap, Br. Zool. 2. No. 165. t. 57- f- 4 Arct. 



Zool. 2. p. 427. E — Will. (Ang.) p. 241. t. 43 Lath. Syn. 4. p. 541. 8. 



—Mont. Ornith. Diet. v. 2.—Lewin's Br. Birds, 3. t. 119 Pult.-CaX. 



Dorset, p. 10 Bewick^s Br. Birds, v. 1. p. t. 242 Shaw's Zool. v. 10. 



p. 56. 

 Canada Titmouse, Arct. Zool. 2. No. 328.— Lath. Syn. 4. p. 548. 9. 



This species, although not so abundant as the preceding 

 one, is very generally dispersed throughout the kingdom. — 

 It inhabits woods and thickets, particularly those that are 

 swampy, and composed of willows, alders, and other brush- 

 wood affectins; moist situations. — Here it finds an abundant 

 supply of food, which, diu'ing the greater part of the year. Food. 

 consists of insects and their larvae. In winter, however, it 

 will feed upon oats and other seeds, and exhibits no dislike 

 to carrion. — It is seldom seen engaged in search of food upon 



