ClafsII. LONG TAILED TITMOUSE. 327 



Mr. Willoughby obferves that this bird differs from 

 the former in thefe particulars, ift, that it is bigger a 

 2d, that it wants the white fpot on the head : 3d, it 

 has a larger tail : 4th, its under fide is white : 5th, it 

 has lefs black under the chin : 6th, it wants the white 

 fpot on the coverts of the wings. This laft diftinction 

 does not hold in general, as the fubjeel: figured 

 in the Britijh Zoology had thofe fpots ; yet wanted that 

 on the hind part of the head. 



V. The LONG TAILED TITMOUSE. 



Belon aw. 368. LaMefangealonguequeuePams 

 Parus caudatus. Gefner a<v. 642, longicaudus. Brijfon av. iii. 

 Monticola. Aldr. a<v. ii. 319. 570. 



Wil. orn. 242. Lin.fyjl* 342. 



Raii fyn. a<v. 74. Alhtita. Faun. Suecfp, 83. 



Pendolino, Paronzino, Zinan. Belzmeife Pfannenftiel. Kram* 

 77- 379- 



THE length is five inches and a quarter ; the T) C fcr, 

 breadth feven inches. The bill is black, 

 yery fhort, thick, and very convex, differing greatly 

 from all others of the titmoufe kind : the bafe is 

 befet with fmall briftles : the irides are of a hazel 

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

 hind part, is white, mixed with a few dark grey 

 feathers ; this bed of white is entirely furrounded 

 with a broad ftroke of black, which rifing on each 

 lide the upper mandible, paffes over each eye, unites 

 at the hind part of the head - r and continues along 

 the middle of the back to the rump : the feathers 

 ©n each fide of this black ftroke are of a purplifn red, 



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