GREATER TITMOUSE. 
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breast; it is also narrower. The young male lias tlie black 
streak clown the breast and belly narrower tlian in tlie adult 
male, but continued all the way. The moult of these birds 
takes place in July and August. 
The characters of the genus Parus are ; bill short, strong, 
subconical, slightly compressed, without any notch ; nostrils 
basal and round, hidden by short reflected bristles ; tarsi 
strong; hinder claw the longest: wings with the first quill 
moderate, the second shorter than the third, the fourth and 
fifth the longest. 
The egg of the Greater Titmouse is figured 76. 
