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TITMOUSE. 



■Fi'MALE. 



Place. 



26. 

 NEW-ZEA- 

 LAND r. 



Description. 



Place. 



and rounded in fhape ; the colour of it black ; the two outer 

 feathers white, with the ends black, divided obliquely ; the next 

 white within near the tip * : legs dufky brown. 



The female is pale brown above ; all beneath yellow : the bill 

 and fpot over it as in the male : quills dufky. 



In the collection of Sir J. Banks. Found in Queen Charlotte's 

 Bay, Nevj Zealand, and called there Mirro-Mirro. 



E N G T H five inches. Bill final], being only a quarter of 

 an inch in length ; colour of it brown, with the tip 

 dufky : the forehead rufous : the upper parts of the body pale 

 cinereous red, mixed with brown : over the eye a white fcreak t 

 beneath the eye, and fides of the head, cinereous : under parts 

 pale rufous grey : quills pale brown : tail the colour of the 

 back; the two middle feathers black; the others marked with a 

 fquare fpot of brown about the middle of each feather : the legs 

 are an inch in length, of a dufky colour ; claws black. 



This is met with at Dufky Bay, Neiv Zealand, where it is called 

 Toe-Tde. From Sir J. Banks's drawings. 



27. 

 CREEPING T. 



Description. 



Parus Americanus, Lin. Syft. 1. p. 341. N° 4. 



Le Figuier cendre de la Caroline, Brif. orn. iii. p. 522. N° 66.-— PI. enl. 



72'- f- 1. 



a. Collier, Buf. oif. v. p. 301. 



Finch-Creeper, Catejb. Car. i. pi. 64. — ArB. Zoo!. 



IZE of the White Throat. The upper mandible brown $ 



the lower yellow : the head blue ; a white fpot over the 



* In fome birds four of the middle tail feathers only are black; all the others 

 white, with the outer edges and tips black : the bill is alfo black. 



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