70 PENDULINE TIT. 



GEANIVORJE. 



Family PAPIDJE. (Bonaparte.) 



Genus Partjs. (Limiceus.) 



PENDULINE TIT. 



Parus pendulinus. 



Par us pendulinus, Linn^us. Temminck et Auct. 



" narbonensis, fjun.J Gmelin. Latham. 



JEgithalus pendulinus, Vigors. Bonaparte. 



" " Keyserling and Blasius. 



Mesange Remiz, La Penduline, 



La Mesange de Languedoc, Of the French. 



Gemeine beutelmeise, Of the Germans. 



Specific Characters. — Vertex and throat white ; forehead black, edged with 

 ochreous; cheeks black; back rich deep russet. Length four inches and 

 one fifth ; carpus to tip two inches and one tenth ; beak from gape two 

 fifths of an inch ; tarsus three fifths of an inch ; tail two inches. 



The Penduline Tit is an inhabitant of Poland, Italy, South Russia, 

 Hungary, the Crimea, and France. It is also found in some parts of 

 Germany. Degland says he has received the nests and eggs from the 

 neighbourhood of Pezenas; that it is found in Provence, but only 

 during its migration, and accidentally in Lorraine and in the depart- 

 ment of the Seine-Inferieure. M. Hardy has also obtained it in the 

 neighbourhood of Dieppe. To these localities Naumann adds Dalmatia, 

 Scandinavia, and Siberia; while Count Miihle tells us that it is not 

 rarely found in the swamps of Rumelia and the Morea. 



The Penduline Tit is not only one of the most prettily coloured 

 among the family, but it is altogether a most interesting and remark- 

 able bird. Its nest is a very elaborate structure; and all ornithologists 



