﻿TITMOUSE, 



[ ENGTH three inclies three quarters. Bill fhort and 

 black, a trifle bent : general colour of the plumage ferru- 

 ginous brown, paleft on the head and neck: quills and tail 

 brown, edged with black ; the laft pretty long : legs red. 



Inhabits China. Delcribed from drawings in the poflefllon of 

 Captain Broadley. 



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CHINESE T. 



Description. 



Pe-acs. 



La Mefange de la Cike de Malabar, Son. Voy. Ind. voK ii. p. 204. pi. 114. z «« 



f u MALABAR f. 



T ENGTH five inches two-thirds. Bill black : irides red : 

 the head, hind part of the neck, and back, of a deep grey : 

 the throat black : the breaft, belly, and vent, the colour of red 

 orpiment : the wing coverts black, with a pale red fpot on fome 

 of the lower ones : the fecond quills are black ; the next to them 

 half red half black ; the greater quills black : the two middle 

 tail feathers are black ; the others of a pale red half way from 

 the bafe, the end half black ; the under tail coverts pale rufous : 

 legs black. 



The female has the colours lefs bright : all the under parts 

 rufous yellow : but the fpot on the wings and rump the fame as 

 in the male* 



Inhabits the coafl of Malabar. 



Description. 



Female. 



Place. 



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