BLUE TIT. 365 
Kuropean Continent. M. Vieillot says it inhabits the 
Canary Islands; it is found in Sicily and in Crete. M. 
Temminck, in his Supplement, says that it is found in the 
Morea, and includes it also in his Catalogue of the Birds of 
Japan. 
The male has the beak of a dusky horn colour, almost 
black; the forehead bluish white, the white extending 
backwards in a band over the eyes; the crown of the 
head azure blue; from the nostril to the eye, and from 
thence over the ear-coverts to the nape of the neck, a 
stripe of Prussian blue; the irides dark hazel; above 
the eye, and under the blue colour of the crown of the 
head, is a white band, already noticed, which isolating 
the blue colour above it, has given rise to the term Blue- 
cap, another name by which this bird is known; the 
cheeks are white; the nape of the neck has a band of 
Prussian blue, which passing forward on each side, under 
the white cheeks, joins a triangular patch of blackish blue 
colour which descends from the chin over the throat; 
the back and upper tail-coverts yellowish green; wings 
and tail pale blue; the greater wing-coverts and the ter- 
tials with a white spot at the tip of each; under surface 
of the body sulphur yellow, with a central longitudinal 
patch of dark blue; under surface of the wing and tail- 
feathers pearl grey ; legs, toes, and claws, bluish black. 
The whole length of the bird four inches and a half. 
From the carpal joint to the end of the wing, two inches 
and three-eighths; the first quill-feather not quite half 
as long as the second ; the third longer than the second ; 
the fourth the longest in the wing. 
