﻿.£44 TITMOUSE. 



©r efpecially if one is broken : but when the young are hatched, 

 no bird defends them more courageoufly. 



Its note confifts in general of a difagreeable fhriek, except now 

 and then an attempt to warble -, but then far from pleafmg. 



_-._-''•_, _ Farus bicolor, Lin. Syji. i. p. 340. N° 1. — Faun. Groen. p. 123. N° 85. 



LaMefange hupee de la Caroline, Brif. orn. iii. p. 561. N° g. — Buf. oif. 



v. p. 451. 

 Crefted Titmoufe, Catejb. Car. i. pi. 57, 

 Toupet Titmoufe, Jrfl. Zoo/. 



Lev. Muf. 



Description. CIZE of the Greater Titmoufe: length fix inches. Bill five 

 lines and a half long, and of a black colour : on the fore- 

 head, ju ft over the bill, is a black fpot: the head is furnifhed 

 with a longifh pointed creft, which, with all the upper parts of 

 the body, is of a deep grey : the under parts reddifh white, 

 deepeft on the fides : quills and tail edged with rufous grey; the 

 laft a trifle forked : legs lead-colour. 

 Female. The female differs from the male 3 in having the belly and fides 



nearly white. 



Place and This bird inhabits Carolina and Virginia, where it is found the 



whole year, and keeps chiefly in the woods, living on infecls, like 

 others of its race. It is alfo met with in Denmark and the fouth- 

 ern parts of Groenland, where it is called Avingarfak. It flies 

 fwiftly j and during flight folds up the wing frequently, when it 

 utters a weak note. 



Manners. 



Parus 



