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r nNC Parus caudatus, Lin. Syft. i. p, 342. N° 11.— Scop. am. i. p. 164. N° 247.=" 



TAILED T. Kram - * 1 ' P- 379* N ° 6-—Frifcf>. t. 14.— jR«» ty». p. 74. 



La Mefange a longue queue, Brif. arn. iii, 570. N° i$.—Buf. oif. v. p. 437. 



pi. 19. — PI, ltd. 502. f. 3. 

 Long-tailed Titmoufe, Rail Syti. p. 74. A. ^.—Will. orn. p. 242. pi. 43.—" 

 Albin. ii. pi. 57. f. 1. — Br. Zool. i. N° 166.— Ar8. Zool. 

 Br. Muf. Lev. Muf. 



Description. fin HIS is an elegant fpecies : its length is nearly five inches 

 and a half. The bill is fhort, thick, and black : the irides 

 hazel : top of the head white, mixed with grey j this is furrounded 

 all round by a broad ftreak of black, like a crown, uniting at 

 the back part, and paries down the hind part of the neck and 

 back quite to the rump : the fides of the head, and all the under 

 parts as far as the bread, white, but the laft inclines to reddifh : 

 the fides of the back, the rump itfelf, the belly, fides, and vent, 

 are of a dull rofe-colour, but have a mixture of white on the 

 under parts : the lefTer wing coverts are black j the greater 

 brown, edged with rofe-colour : the quills dufky, with pale 

 edges : the tail makes up above one-half of the bird, being 

 three inches and a half long ; the feathers of very unequal 

 lengths, for the outer ones are only one inch three quarters *; 

 the four middle feathers are black ; the third on each fide the 

 fame, edged with grey, and the others black and white: the 

 legs and claws are black. 



* Moll birds with wedged tails preferve a regular or graduated inequality in 

 the tail feathers ; but this is very lingular, for the two middle feathers are three 

 inches two lines long, the next on each fide three inches and a half, the third 

 three inches and a quarter, the fourth three inches, the fifth twp inches feven 

 lines, and the fixth, or outer one, only one inch three quarters. 



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