3 2 4 GREAT TITMOUSE. Clafs II. 



The breaft of the female is of a darker color than 

 that of the male. This fpecies, by the above-men- 

 tioned writer's account, is found in Tcrkfhire and 

 Northampton/Join. 



Genus XXIV. TITMICE. 



I. The GREAT TITMOUSE. 



Nonette ou Mefange. Be Ion av. Lin.fyft.^i. 



367. Talg-oxe. Faun. Suec.fp. 265. 



Parus major. Gefner av. 640. Le groffe Mefange, ou la Char- 

 Aldr. a<v. ii. 319. bonnkre. BriJJbn av. iii. 539. 



Spernuzzola, Paruffola. Ollna 28. PL enL 3. f. 1. 



Great Titmoufe, or Ox-eye. Wil. Mnfvit. Brunnicb. z^j. 



om. 240. Kohlmeife, Kram. 378. 



Raiifyn. av. 73. Br. Zool. 113. plate W. f. 4. 



^"Tr^HIS fpecies fometimes vifits our gardens; but 

 •*■ chiefly inhabites woods, where it builds in hol- 

 low trees, laying about ten eggs. This, and the 

 whole tribe feed on infects, 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 ten- 

 der buds. Like wood-peckers they are perpetually 

 funning up and down the bodies of trees in -queft of 

 food. 

 Defer. ^e head and throat of this fpecies are black ; 

 the cheeks white ; the back, and coverts of the wings 

 green •, the belly of a yellowifh green, divided in the 

 middle by a bed of black, which extends to the 

 vent ; the rump is of a bluifh grey. The quil-feathers 

 are dufky, tipt partly with blue, partly with white. 

 The leffer covens are blue: the greater tipt with 



white. 



