General 
descrip- 
tion. 
228 PASSERES. PARUS. BLvE_ 
bourhood of the Cape of Good Hope. When seized, it de- 
fends itself vigorously, inflicting a severe bite with its sharp- 
pointed bill. 
PraTE 51. Fig. 1. Natural size. 
Bill black. Head, throat, and lower part of the neck, black. 
Cheeks and ear-coverts white.—On the nape of the neck 
is a spot of white. Back olive-green. Rump bluish- 
grey. Wing-coverts greyish-blue, tipped with white. 
Quills greenish-grey, edged with pale greyish-blue. Tail 
the same, having the exterior web of the outer feather 
white. Breast and belly sulphur-yellow, with a black 
list or streak running down the mesial line. Under tail- 
coverts white. Legs bluish-grey. ! 
The colours in the female bird are the same, but they have 
not the superior gloss that distinguishes the plumage of 
the male. 
é Blue Titmouse.—Parus cceruleus, Linz. 
PLATE 51. Fig. 2. 
Parus coeruleus, Linn. Syst. 1. p.'341. 5.—Gmel. Syst. 1. p. 1008. 5.—Raii, 
Syn. p. 74. A. 4.—Lath. Ind. Ornith. v. 2. p. 566. 12.— Will. p. 175. t. 43. 
—Briss. 3. p. 554. 2. 
Le Mesange blaue, Buff: Ois. v. 5. p. 413.—Id. Pl. Enl. 3. f. 2.—Temm. 
Man. d’Ornith. v. 1. p. 289. 
Blaumeise, Bechst. Naturg. Deut. v. 3. p. 860.—Meyer, Tasschenb. Deut. 
v. 1. p. 269.—Frisch. t. 14. f. 1. A. 
Blue Titmouse, Br. Zool. 1. No. 163. t. 57. f. 2,—Arct. Zool. 2. p. 427. D. 
Albin. 1. t. 47.—Lath. Syn. 4. p. 543. 10.—Will. (Angl.) p. 242. t. 43.— 
Mont. Ornith. Dict. v. 2.—Haye’s Br. Birds, t. 38.—Wale. Syn. 2. t. 245. 
—Pult. Cat. Dorset. p. 10.—Bewick’s Br. Birds, 1. p. t. 237. 
Provincial, T'omtit, Nun, Blue-Cap, Hickmall, Billy-Biter. 
The great abundance and very general dispersion of the 
Blue Titmouse throughout Britain, have lessened the interest 
its beautiful and delicate plumage in a species of rarer occur- 
rence would, without doubt, have commanded. It is a bird 
of very active and lively manners, continually engaged amidst 
the branches and foliage of trees or bushes, in pursuit of in- 
