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GREAT TITMOUSE. Crass Il, 
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XXV. TIT- BILL ftrait, fhort, hard, ftrong, tharp- pointed 
MOUSE. 
162. GREAT. 
DeEscRIP. 
a little comprefied. 
NOSTRILS round covered with briftles,. 
TONGUE as if cut at the end, terminaHiagy with 
two or three briftles. 
Nonette ou Mefange. Belon Lin. fyft. 341. 
av. 376. Talg-oxe. Faun. Suec. fp. 265. 
Parus major. Ge/ner av. 640. Le groffe Mefange ou la Char- 
Aldr. av. I. 319. bonniere. Briffen av. It. 
Spernuzzola, Paruffola. O/- 539: 
na, 28. PI, Enke 9.1." 
Great Titmoufe, or Ox-eye. Mutfvit. ‘Brasiich; 287. 
Wii. orn. 240. Kohlmeife. Kran. 378. 
Raii fyn. av, 73. Frifch, I. 13. 
Snitza, Scopoli, No. 242. Br. Zool. 113. plate W. FA. 
HIS fpecies fometimes vifits our gardens; but 
chiefly inhabits woods, where it builds in 
hollow trees, laying about ten eges. This, and 
the whole tribe feed on infeéts, which they find in 
the bark of trees; in the fpring they do a great 
deal of mifchief in the fruit.garden, by picking off 
the tender buds. Like wood-peckers they are per- 
petually running up and down the bodies of trees 
in queft of food. The bird has three chearful 
notes, which it begins to utter in the month of Fe- 
bruary. | 
The head and throat of this fpecies are black ; 
the cheeks white ; the back green the belly of a 
yellowith © 
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