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Peau User Cav AGN US: 
(AZURE TITMOUSE.) 
Parus cyanus, Pall. N. Comm. Acad. Sci. Imp. Petrop. xiv. p. 588, tab. 13. fig. 1 (1770). 
Parus knjesiek, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 1013 (1788, ex Lepech.). 
Parus sebyensis, Sparrm, Mus. Carls. i. t. 25 (1786). 
Cyanistes cyaneus, Kaup, Natiirl. Syst. p. 99 (1829). 
Parus cyaneus, Schl. Rey. Crit. p. xlvi (1844). 
Cyanistes elegans, Brehm, Naumannia, 1855, p. 285. 
Goloobaia Lazarevka, Russian. 
Figure notabiles. 
Sparrm. Mus. Carls. tab. 25; Werner, Atlas, Granivores, pl. 15; Naum. Vog. Deutschl. iv. 
Taf. 95. fig. 3; Vieill. Gal. des Ois. pl. 68; Gould, B. of Eur. iii. pl. 153; Kjerb. Orn. 
Dan. tab. 24. fig. 2; Bree, B. of Kur. iii. p. 10; Fritsch, Vog. Eur. t. 27. fig. 8; Sundey. 
Sv. Fogl. pl. 68. fig. 5. 
Ad. supra cyanescenti-cinereus: pileo toto, plagd nuchali et scapularium apicibus albis, ilis in ave viva cyaneo 
nitentibus, in speciminibus farctis vix roseo indutis: lined angusta per oculum ducta et ad torquem 
occipitalem versus latera colli dilatatum conjuncta, sordidé cyanea: tectricibus alarum cyaneis, minori- 
bus dorsi colore lavatis, majoribus vividioribus ad apicem laté albis, fasciam alarem latam formantibus : 
remigibus nigricanti-fuscis, extiis vividé cyaneo lavatis et marginatis, versus apicem gradatim albis, secun- 
dariis intus feré omnino albis: tectricibus supracaudalibus cyaneis, albo terminatis: rectricibus vivide 
cyaneis, ad basin fuscis, exterioribus feré albis, reliquis gradatim albis usque duas medias ad apicem 
tantum ipsum albas: subtus pure albus, pectore medio plagd cyanescenti-nigra notato: rostro nigro : 
pedibus plumbeis: iride saturaté brunned. 
Juv. similis adultis, sed pallidior, et coloribus ubique dilutioribus : vertice medio cinereo, capitis lateribus flavi- 
canti-albis : alarum caudeque albedine mints extensd: subtis albidus, flavicante lavatus. 
Adult Male. Head snow-white, appearing as if powdered over with blue in life, represented in the skin by a pale 
pinkish reflection ; lores, a ring round the eye, and the feathers covering the nostrils also white; a 
narrow line of feathers drawn through the eye, passing over the ear-coverts and joining a nuchal band 
which widens out on each side of the neck, prussian blue; a patch of feathers on the hinder neck white, 
with the same pinkish reflexion as the crown; back pale bluish grey, the tips of the scapulars and the 
sides of the rump white ; upper tail-coverts prussian blue tipped with white ; wing-coverts bluish grey 
washed with white, the terminal half of the greater coverts white, forming a very broad bar across the 
wing; quills greyish brown, white at the base of the inner web, the outer web prussian blue for the 
greater part of its length, white for the remainder, the latter colour occupying the larger half of the 
external web of the outer primaries and gradually diminishing in extent till it occupies the tips of the 
secondaries, and on the innermost of these latter quills is spread over the greater part of the feather ; 
