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GREAT TITMOUSE. Class II. 



GENUS XXVIII. TITMOUSE. 



Bill strait, short, hard, strong, sharp-pointed, 



a little compressed. 

 Nostrils round covered with bristles. 

 Tongue as if cut at the end, terminating with 



two or three bristles. 



1. Great. Parus. major. P. viridi-olivace- 

 us subtus flavescens, capite 

 nigro temporibus albis, nu- 

 cha lutea. Lath. Ind. om. 

 562. id.Syn. iv. 536. 



Nonette ou Mesange. Belon 

 av. 376. • 



Parus major. Gesner av. 640. 



Aldr. av. ii. 3ig. 



Spernuzzola, Parussola. Oli- 

 na, 28. 



Great Titmouse, or Ox-eye. 

 IVil. om. 240. 



Rati Syn. av. 73. 



Snitza. Scopoli, No. 242. 

 Parus major. Gm. Lin. 1006. 

 Talg-oxe. Faun. Suec. sp. 



265. 

 Le grosse Mesange ou la Char- 



bonniere. Brisson av. iii. 



539. 

 Hist. d"ois. v. 392. PL Enl. 



3./. 1. 

 Musvit. Brunnick, 287- 

 Kohlmeise. Kram. 378. Frisch, 



i. 13. 

 Br. Zool. 113. plate W. f. 4. 



Arct. Zool. ii. 123. 



JLHIS species sometimes visits our gardens, 

 but chiefly inhabits woods, where it builds in 

 hollow trees, laying about ten eggs. This, and 

 the whole tribe feed on insects, which they find 

 in the bark of trees ; in the spring they do a 

 great deal of mischief in the fruit garden, by 



