﻿TITMOUSE. 



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This inhabits the northern parts of Afia 5 and is called the 

 'Amorous, on account of its difpofition. It has been kept in 

 cages j and in this imprifoned (late, when in pairs, nothing can 

 exceed the fondnefs of the one fex for the other 5 perpetually 

 careffing: by this means alleviating the rigours of confinement a 

 and making even captivity itfelf fupportable, 



Place and 



Manners. 



Parus pendulinus, Lin. Syjl. i. p. 342. N° 13. — Georgi Rei/e, p. 175. 



La Mefange de Pologne, ou le Remiz, Brif. orn. iii. p. 565. N° 11. pi. 29. 



f. z.—Buf. oif. v. p. 423. — PI. en!. 608. f. 3. 

 Mountain Titmoufe, Albin. iii. pi. 57. (male and female.) 



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PENDUL1NE T. 



r T i HIS equals the Blue Titmoufe in fize, and is above four 

 inches and a half in length. The bill is five lines long, and 

 afh-coloured : the fore part of the head whitifh j the hind part 

 of it, and neck, cinereous : upper part of the back and fcapulars 

 rufous grey 1 the lower part and rump grey : the forehead black, 

 which lengthens backwards into a band under each eye : throat 

 and fore part of the neck very pale afh-colour : the reft of the 

 under parts pale rufous t upper lefler wing coverts brown, tipped 

 with rufous -, the greater ones blackifh, edged with chefnut, and 

 tipped with pale rufous : quills and tail brown, margined with 

 white : legs reddifh grey : claws blackifh. 



This fpecies inhabits not only Poland, from whence it has 

 been named by fome, but alfo Italy, Sihiria *, and the interme- 



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Place and 

 Manners. 



* Common in Ruffia ; in greateft plenty at Sundahf, on the river Yakk, though 

 they are likewife feen along the Wtlga, and other parts.— See Die. RuJ/ia, vol. i. 

 p. 480. iii. p. 363, 



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