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BLUE TITMOUSE. Class II. 



2. Blue. 



Parus. Cceruleus. P. olivaceo 

 virescens subtus luteus, re- 

 migibus cserulescentibus, 

 primoribns margine exteri- 

 ore albis, fronte alba, ver- 

 tice caeruleo. Lath. Ind. 

 orn. 566. id. Syn. iv. 543. 



Belon. av. 369. 



Parus cseruleus. Gesner av. 

 641. 



Aldr. av. ii. 321. 



Blue Titmouse, or Nun. Wil. 

 orn. 242. 



Raii Syn. av. 74. 



La Mesange Bleue. Brisson 



DESCRIP' 

 TIOJT. 



av. iii. 544. Hist, d'ois. v. 



413. Pl.Enl.S.f. 2. 

 Blava snitza, Blau mandlitz. 



Scopoli, No. 244. 

 Parozolino, o Fratino. Zinan. 



76. 

 Parus casruleus. Gm. Lin. 



1008. 

 Blamees. Faun. Suec. sp. 



267. 

 Blaaemeise. Br. 288. 

 Blaumeise. Kram. 379. Frisch. 



i. 14. 

 Br. Zool. 114. plate W. f. 5. 



Arct. Zool. ii. 124. 



JL HIS bird frequents gardens, and does great 

 injury to fruit trees, by bruising the young buds 

 in search of the insects that lurk under them ; 

 it breeds in holes of walls, and lays about twelve 

 or fourteen eggs. 



It is a very beautiful species, the bill is short 

 and dusky ; the crown of the head of a fine 

 blue ; from the bill to the eyes is a black line ; 

 the forehead and cheeks are white ; the back is 

 of a yellowish green ; the lower side of the body 

 yellow; the wings and tail blue, the former 

 marked transversely with a white bar ; the legs 

 are of a lead color. 



