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I do not find that any of this genus migrate, either in this cli- 

 mate or any other. 



The food is general j feeds, fruits, and infects. A few of them 

 greedy after flefh, whether lean -or fat ; but are fondeft of the laft. 

 Are reftlefs birds, and by no means timid ; fome of them, efpe- 

 cially the firft fpecies, daring to afTault birds of three times their 

 own fize ; and often attack birds weaker than themfelves, which 

 they kill ; or, on finding one already dead, in both cafes pick a 

 hole in the fkull, and eat the brains on the fpot. 



Are very fruitful, even to a proverb } fome of them laying 

 eighteen or twenty eggs for one hatch. 



I# Parus Major, Lin. Syjl. i. p. 341. N° 3. — Scop. ann. i. p. 162. N° 242. — 



*. GREAT T. Kram. el. p. 378. 1. —Muller, p 34. N° 283. — GeorgiReife, p. 175. 



Olin. uc. p. 28. — Frifch. t. 13. 

 'La Groffe Mefange, ou la Charbonniere, Sri/, orn. iii, p. 539. N° i.—Buf. 



cif. v. p. 392. pi. iy.—PI. enl. 3. f. 1. 

 Parus Major, feu Fringillago, Rait Syn. p. 73. A. 1. 



Great Titmoufe, or Ox-eye, Will. orn. p. 240. pi. d^.—Albin. i. pi. 46.— 

 Br. Zool. i. N° 162. pi. 57. f. \.—Ara. Z00L 

 Br. Muf. Lev. Muf. 



Description. HP H E length of this well-known fpecies is five inches and 

 three quarters, and weighs nearly one ounce. Bill above 

 half an inch, and black : the head and throat are" black : the 

 cheeks white : back and wings olive green : the belly gre'enifh 

 yellow j down the middle of it an irregular ftripe of black, di- 

 viding it into two parts quite to the vent : rump blue grey % 

 quills dufky, edged with grey -. the greater coverts tipped with 



white, 



