Titmouse. INSESSORES. PARUS. 243 



CRESTED TITMOUSE. 



Parus cristatus, Linn. 

 PLATE XLIII. Fig. 6. 



Parus cristatus, Linn. Syst. 1. p. 340. 2 Gmel. Syst. 1. p. 1005 Ran 



Syn. p. 74. C— Will. p.'l75. t. 48 Lath. Ind. Ornith. v. 2- p. 567. sp. 14. 



Le Mesange huppe, Buff. Ois. v. 5. p. 447 Id. PI. Enl. 502. f. 2 Temm. 



IMan. d'brnith. v. 1. p. 290. 

 Haubenmeise, Bechst. Naturg. Deut. v. 3. p. 869.— M£?wr, Tasschenb. Deut. 



V. 1. p. 270 — Friich, ViJg. t. 14. f. 1. B. 

 Crested Titmouse, Arct. Zool. 2. p. 427. F Will. (Aug.) p. 242. t. 43 



Lath. Syn. 4. p. 545. 12 Albin. 2. t. 57-— ikfoHi. Ornith. Diet Id. Sup. 



— Z)oM,'Br. Birds, 2. t. 26 — Wale. Syn. 2. t. 250.— 67i«if's Zool. 10. p. 64. 



As this species is asserted to be an inhabitant of the pine- 

 forests of Scotland, particularly of that of Glenmore (from 

 whence Dr Latham mentions having received a specimen), 

 I have given a figure of the male bird (from which the female 

 only differs in having less black upon the throat) in one of 

 the supplementary plates. 



My own endeavours to discover it in its native haunts have 

 been ineffectual, but I readily allow that, in such an extent 

 of gloomy forest, it might have escaped my research, and may 

 be very properly entitled to its place in our Fauna *. It is 

 said to be of very retired habits, and rarely to associate with 

 any of its congeners ; which may account for my never having 

 met with it in the company of the Cole Titmouse, a species 

 (as I have before observed) abounding in all the pine-districts 

 of Scotland. — According to Temminck, it builds in the holes Nest, &c. 

 of trees or rocks, and sometimes in the deserted nests of 

 crows or squirrels. It lays from eight to ten eggs, white, 

 with purplish-red spots, princi2:)ally disposed around the 

 larger end. — Its food consists of insects and their larvae, to- Food. 



* Sir Wm. Jardine informs me that this bird has been found in some 

 plantations not far distant from Glasgow, where it annually breeds. 



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