Ciafs II. BLUE TITMOUSE. 325 



white. The exterior fides of the outmoft feather of 

 the tail are white : the exterior fides of the other 

 bluifh : their interior fides dusky : the legs lead 

 color. 



II. The BLUE TITMOUSE. 



Belon aw. 369. 



Parus coeruleus. Gefner av. 641. 



Aldr. a<u. ii . 321. 



Blue Titmouie, or Nun. Wil. 



orn. 242. 

 Rati fyn, a<u. 74. 

 La Mefange Bleue. BriJJbn a<v. iii. 



544- 



PL en!. 3. f. 2. 



Parozoh.oo, o Fratino. Zinart, 



76. 

 Lin.fyft. 341. 



Blamees. Faun. Suec.fp. 267. 

 Blaaemeife. Br. 288. 

 Blaumeife. Kram. 379. 

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



S HIS bird frequents gardens, and does great in- 

 jury to fruit trees, by bruifing the young buds 

 in fearch of the infects that lurk under them ; it breeds 

 in holes of walls and lays about twelve or fourteen 

 eggs. 



It is a very beautiful fpecies, the bill is ihort and . Defcr 

 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 yellowiih green: 

 the lower fide of the body yellow : the wings and tail 

 blue, the former marked tranfverfely with a white 

 bar : the legs of a lead color. 



III. The 



