Class II. LONG TAILED TITMOUSE. 



537 



not hold in general, as the subject figured in 

 the British Zoology had those spots ; yet want- 

 ed that on the hind part of the head. 



Le Comte cle Buffon thought this only a va- 

 riety of the preceding species : certain it is that 

 the haunts of this and of the former differ, 

 but each agree in being equally prolific with 

 others of the genus. 



Parus. caudatus. P. albo roseo 

 nigroque longitudinal iter va- 

 rius, vertice albo, cauda lon- 

 giore. Lath. Ind. orn. 569. 

 id. Syn. iv. 550. id. Sup. 1. 

 190. 



Belon av. 308. 



Parus caudatus. Gesner av. 

 642. 



Monticola. Aldr. av. ii. 319. 



Wil. orn. 242. 



Raii Syn. av. 74. 



Pendolino, Paronzino. Zinan. 

 77- 



Gaugartza. Scopoli, No. 247- 

 La Mesange a longue queue, 



Parus longicaudus. Brisson 



av. iii. 570. Hist, d'ois. v. 



437- Pi- Enl. 502./. 3. 

 Parus caudatus. Gm. Lin. 



1010. 

 Alhtita. Faun. Suec. sp. 83. 

 Belzmeise Pfannenstiel. Kram. 



379- 

 Langschwaentzige Meise. 



Frisch, i. 14. 

 Br.Zool. 110. W. f. 6. Arct. 



Z00L ii. 125. 



5. Long 

 Tailed. 



tiojj. 



XHE length is five inches and a quarter; the Descrip- 

 breadth seven inches. The bill is black, very 

 short, thick, and very convex, differing greatly 

 from all others of the titmouse kind ; the base 

 is beset with small bristles ; the irides are of a 

 hazel color. The top of the head, from the bill 



