124 ■ CLASS AVES. 



in the construction of their nests. We have but 

 one in Europe. 



The Penduline Titmouse. Parus pendulinus. 

 Enl. 618. 3. 



Ash-colour ; wings and tail brown ; a black band on 

 the forehead, extending even behind the eyes in the 

 male. This little bird, inhabiting the South and 

 East of Europe, is famous for the pretty nest, tissued 

 with the down of the willow and poplar, furnished 

 within with feathers, and shaped like a purse, which 

 it suspends to the flexible branches of aquatic trees. 



The young is the Languedoc Titmouse. 



Parus Narhonensis. Gmel. PI. Enl. t. 'JOS. 

 Appears to be the female oi pendulinus. 



^ Cape Titmouse. Lath. Parus Capensis. Gmel. 



Sonn. Ind. t. 115. 



Gray-ash ; quills black, white edged ; tail black, be- 

 neath white. Cape of Good Hope. 



The nest of this bird, made of cotton, in the form of 

 a bottle, has a stand for the male bird near the neck. 



The Buntings. Emberiza. Lin. 



Have a character extremely distinct, in their conical 

 beak, short and straight, the upper mandible of 

 which, more narrow, and re-entering into the lower, 

 has in the palate a hard and projecting tubercle. 

 They are granivorous birds, of little sagacity, blindly 

 running into all the snares which are laid for them. 



