4a6> ST ROM I AN AND AZURE TITMOUSE. 



dufky i exterior fides of the outmofl: feathers white -, of the others-, 

 blueifh : legs lead-color. Size of a Chaffinch. 

 liAcr. Inhab'its Norway,. Sweden, RuJJia, and Siima, even in the winten. 



R, Stromian, Stroma Sond, i. 2/^0.— Brunnich, p> 73. — Latham, ii. 537.- 



f~r^ With bill black above, yellow below: neck and upper part: 

 of the body yellowifli green : throat yellow: breaft yellow^, 

 fpotted with bay : belly blue, yellowifh near the vent: tail bifur- 

 catedjof the fame color with the back; the two naiddle feathers.-, 

 greeniflij the two outmofl edged with white : legs black.. 

 Flac*. Difcovered by Mr.-5/rb'»r, in 6'«zi»?er. . 



C. Azure Titmouse. 



Parus Cyaneis, Nov. Com. Petrop. xiv. 498. tab. xiil. fig. 1. — 588. tab'; zxii!. fig. i. . 

 Parus Indieus, Aldr. — Rail. Syn. Av. 74. — Latham, i. 538. 



With a very Ihort and thick bill : crown and hind part of the- 

 neck of a hoary whitenefs ; the lower part of the laft bound-- 

 ed by a tranfverfe band of dark blue : cheeks white, crofled by a 

 deep blue line, extending beyond the eyes : back light blue : rump 

 whitifli : under fide of the neck, breaflr, and belly, of a fnowy • 

 whitenefs, with a fingle dufky fpot on the breaft : wings varied with , 

 rich blue, dufky, and white : tail rather long ; of a dufky blue^ ,tipt 

 with white : legs dufky blue. 



Size of the Englijh Blue Titmoufe. The plumage of this. elegant: 

 fpecies is extremely loofe, foft, and of moft exquifitely fine texture, 

 and fo liable to be raifed, that when the bird is fitting, but efpe- 

 cially when it is afleep, it appears like a ball of feathers. 

 FxAce. It inhabits, in great abundance^ the northern woods o(<Sibiria and : 



RuJJia, and about Synbirjk, \n the government of Kajan. It is a 

 migratory bird, and. appears in winter converfant about the houfes 

 in Peter/burgh. It twitters like the common Sparrow, but with a 

 foftex and fweeter note. 



