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Place. 



TITMOUSE. 



quills brown : tail black ; the outer web of the exterior feather 

 white j the next to it tipped with white : legs black. 



From the Cape of Good Hope. 



In the collection of Sir Jofeph Banks. 



7. Parus ater, Lin.Syft. i. p. 341. N° 7. — Scop. aim. i. p. 163,. N° 245. — 



-COLEMOUSE. Kram.el. p. 379. N* 4, — Georgi Reife., p. 175. — Frijch. t. 1.3. 



La Mefange a tete noire, Brif. orn. iii. p. 551. N° 5. 

 La petite Charbonniere, Buf. oij. v, p. 400. 



Parus ater, or Colemoufe, Rati Syn. p. 73. A. z. — Will. orn. p. 24s. t. 43. 

 — Br. Zool. i. N° 164. pi. 57. f. 3. — Aril. Zool. 

 Br. Muf. Lev. Muf. 



Description. T ESS than the Blue Titmoufe : weight two drams : length 

 four inches. Bill four lines and a half ; colour black : 

 head and throat black : from the bill, on each fide, a broad band 

 of white, paffing juft under the eye to the fides of the neck: on 

 the hind head a large white fpot : hind part of the neck, back, 

 and rump, afh-colour : from the breaft to the vent rufous white : 

 wing coverts grey, tipped with white, forming two bands of the 

 fame colour : quills and tail feathers brownifh afh-colour, bor- 

 dered with grey : the tail fomewhat forked : legs and claws lead^ 

 colour; 

 Place. This is pretty common in woods, orchards, and gardens, where 



it lives on the fame food as the reft of the Britijh fpecies of this 

 genus, and lays a number of eggs. It is found throughout 

 Europe^ and likewife met with in America. 



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