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BLUE TlTxMOUSE. Class II. 



2. Blue. 



Descrip- 

 tion. 



Parus, cseruleus. P. olivaceo 

 virescens subtus luteus, re- 

 miglbus cajrulescentibus, 

 jirimoribus margine exteri- 

 ore albis, fronte alba, ver- 

 tice cagruleo. Lath. Ind. 

 orn. 566. id. Si/n. iv. 543. 



lielon. av. 369. 



Panis ca?ruleus. Gesner av. 

 641. 



Aldr. av. ii. 321. 



Blue Titmouse, or Nun. Tf-ll. 

 orn. 242. 



Rail Syn. av. 74. 



La Mesanse Bleue. Brisson 



av. iii. 544. Hisi. d'ois. y. 



413. Pl.Enl.S.f. 2. 

 Blava snitza, Blau mandlitz. 



Scopoli, No. 244. 

 Parozolino, o Fratino. Zinan. 



76. 

 Parus caeruleus. Gm. Lin. 



1008. 

 Blamees. Faun. Siiec. sp. 



267. 

 Blaaemeise. i?>-. 288. 

 Blaumcise. Kram. 37Q. Frisch, 



i. 14. 

 Br. Zool. 114. plate W. f. 5. 



Arct. Zool. ii. 124. 



J- HIS bird frequents gardens, and does great 

 injury to fruit trees, by bruising the young buds 

 in search of the insects that lurk under them ; 

 it breeds in holes of walls, and lays about twelve 

 t)r fourteen eggs. 



It is a very beautiful species, the bill is short 

 and dusky ; the crown of the head of a fine 

 blue ; from the bill to the eyes is a black line ; 

 the forehead and cheeks are white ; the back is 

 of a yellowish green ; the lower side of the body 

 yellow; the wings and tail blue, the former 

 marked transversely with a white bar; the legs 

 are of a lead color. 



