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TITMOUSE. 



Female. 



Place. 



8. 

 Vak. B. 



Description. 



Place. 



The female has the head of a rufous grey, aim oft like the upper 

 parts of the body, but darker. 

 Inhabits Louiftana. 



E have alfo feen a further variety, which differed in not 

 having a black chin, all the under parts being white. One 

 fex had the whole head black, with a band of white acrofs the 

 hind head : in the other, only the top of the head was black, and 

 the nape yellowifh. 



Thefe are in the collection of Sir Jofeph Banks, and were taken 

 on board a fhip off the coaft of Japan. 



CANADA T. 



Parus atricapillus, Lin. Syji. i. p. 341. N° 6. 



La Mefange a tete noire de Canada, Brif. orn. iii. p. 553. N* 6. pi. 29. f. \i> 



— Buf. oif. v. p. 408. 

 Canada Titmoufe, Arfi. Z00L 



Description. C IZE of the laft : length four inches and a half. The upper 

 part of the head and the throat are black: hind part of the 

 neck, fcapulars, and leffer wing coverts, deep afh-colour : rump 

 the fame, but paler : upper tail coverts dirty white : fides of the 

 head, and all beneath to the tail, white : thighs cinereous : 

 greater wing coverts brown, edged with grey : quills brown, 

 edged without with grey ; within with whitifh : tail brown, edged 

 with grey ; the two middle feathers cinereous : legs and claws 

 blackifh. 

 Place. Inhabits North America. 



Parus 



