Class II. LONG TAILED TITMOUSE. 



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not hold in general, as the subject figured in 

 the British Zoology had those spots ; yet want- 

 ed that on the hind part of the head. 



Le Comte de Buffon thought this only a va- 

 riety of the preceding species : certain it is that 

 the haunts of this and of the former differ, 

 but each agree in being equally prolific with 

 others of the genus._ 



Parus. caudatus. P. albo roseo 

 nigroque longitudinallterva- 

 rius, vertice albo, cauda lon- 

 giore. Lath. Ind. orn. 56g. 

 id. Syn. iv. 550. id. Sup. i. 

 190. 



Belon av. 368. ,• . ,■ ■ 



Parus caudatus. Gesner av. 

 642. 



Monticola. Aldr. av. ii. 3ig. 



Wil. orn. 242. 



Ttaii Syn. av. 74- 



Pendolino, Paronzino. Z'lnan. 

 77- 



Gaugartza. Scopoli, No. 247. 



La Mesange a longue queue, 

 Parus longicaudus. Brisson 

 av. iii. 570. Hist, d'ois. v. 

 437- PI- Enl. 502. f. 3. 



Parus caudatus. Gm. Lin, 



■ 1010. 



Alhtita. Faun. Suec. sp. 83. 



BelzmeisePfannenstiel. Kram. 



379- J 



Langschwaentzige Meiss. v 



Frisch, i. 14. 

 Br. Zool. 110. W. f. 6. Arcf. 



Zool. ii. 125. 



5. Long 

 Tailed. 



XHE length is five inches and a quarter; the D 

 breadth seven inches. The bill is black, very 

 short, thick, and very convex, differing greatly 

 from all others of the titmouse kind ; the base 

 is beset with small bristles ; the irides are of a 

 hazel color. The top of the head, from the bill 



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