Haunts. 
Food. 
230 PASSERES. PARUS. MagrsH 
Jar deep azure blue. Back greyish blue, with a tinge 
of green. Wings pale Berlin blue, having the greater: 
coverts tipped with white. Tail pale blue. Throat and 
list down the middle of the belly deep Scotch blue. 
Breast and sides sulphur-yellow. Legs and toes bluish- 
grey. 
The female resembles the male bird, except that the list down 
the belly is not so well defined. 
» Marsh Titmouse.—Parus palustris, Linn. 
PLATE 51. Fig. 4. 
Parus palustris, Linn. Syst. 1. p. 341. 8.—Gmel. Syst. 1. p.1009. sp. 8.— Lath. 
Ind. Ornith. v. 2. p. 565. sp. 9.—Raii, Syn. p. 73. A. 3.—Will. p. 175. - 
t. 43.—Briss. 3. p. 555. 7. 
Parus atricapillus, Gmel. Syst. 1. p. 1008. sp. 6.—Lath. Ind. Ornith. v. 2. 
p- 566. sp. 10. 
La Nonnette cendrée, Buff: Ois. v. 5. p. 403.—Id. Pl. Enl. 3. f. 3. 
Le Mesange a téte noir du Canada, Buff: Ois. v. 5. p. 408. 
Mesange Nonnette, Zemm. Man. d’Ornith. v. 1. p. 291. 
Sumpfmeise, Bechst. Naturg. Deut. v. 3. p. 874._Meyer, Tasschenb. Deut. 
vy. 1. p. 271.—Frisch, t. 13. f. 2. B. 
Marsh Titmouse or Black Cap, Br. Zool. 2. No. 165. t. 57. f. 4.—Arct. 
Zool. 2. p. 427. E.—Will. (Ang.) p. 241. t. 43.—Lath. Syn. 4. p. 541. 8. 
—Mont. Ornith. Dict. v. 2.—Lewin’s Br. Birds, 3. t. 119.—Pult. Cat. 
Dorset. p. 10.—Bewick’s Br. Birds, v.1.p. . t. 242.—Shaw’s Zool. v. 10. 
p- 56. 
Canada Titmouse, Arct. Zool. 2. No. 328.—Lath. Syn. 4. p. 548. 9. 
This species, although not so abundant as the preceding 
one, 1s very generally dispersed throughout the kingdom.— 
It inhabits woods and thickets, particularly those that are 
swampy, and composed of willows, alders, and other brush- 
wood affecting moist situations.—Here it finds an abundant 
supply of food, which, durimg the greater part of the year, 
consists of insects and their larve. In winter, however, it 
will feed upon oats and other seeds, and exhibits no dislike 
to carrion.—It is seldom seen engaged in search of food upon 
the higher trees, like others of its tribe, but confines itself to 
the underwood, flitting from bush to bush near the ground. 
—lIts usual note is so different as to be easily distinguished 
from that of all the other species, but in spring some of the 
