﻿S3® 'TITMOUSE. 



Britnnich fuppofes it to be a variety of the Greater Titmoufe ; 

 but it has no black on the head. 

 Place. This inhabits Norway. 



3. La Groffe Mefange bleue, Brif. orn. iii. p. 548. N° 3. — Buf. oif. v. p. 455. 



AZURE T. Parus indicus Aldrovandi, Rail Syn. p. 74. N" 7. — Atdro-v. a%>. ii. p. 714. 



fig. in 715. 

 Parus Dorfo dilute csruleo inferne albus, &c. JV. C. Petr. vol. xiv. p. 498. 



N° I. t. 13. f. I. (Lepechin.) 

 Parus Cyanus, N. C. Petr. vol. xiv. p. 588. N° 8. t. 23. f. 3. (Pallas. J 

 Azure Titmoufe, Aril. Zool. 



Description. C I Z E of the Greater Titmoufe : length five inches and a half. 

 Bill blackifh blue; the edges dirty white: forehead, crown, 

 cheeks, and all the under parts, white, except an irregular oblong 

 blue mark from the breaft to the middle of the belly, and a blue 

 ftripe from the bill, through the eyes, to the hind head; beneath 

 which is a pale band : the back artd rump are pale blue : upper 

 tail coverts deep blue ; the ends white : the wings are varied 

 with white, lead-colour, and blue; the firft forming a band acrofs 

 the wing : the quills brown ; the primaries have the inner edge 

 white ; the outer blue ; towards the tip white ; fecondaries white 

 at the tips : the tail is blue ; the outer edges of the feathers 

 whitifh ; molt fo in proportion as they are more outward ; the 

 outer one of all has the whole of the outer web white ; this fea^- 

 ther too is fhorter than the others : legs and claws black. 

 Flace. This fpecies has hitherto been but very obfcurely known ; the 



whole account being drawn from a painting of Aldrovandus *,, 

 who tells us that it was a native of the Eaji Indies. 



* Aldrovand's, bird had a black fpot beneath the eyes ; and the crown, as well 

 as the reft of the upper parts, was of a pale blue : irides yellow. 



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