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ORD. III. GEN. XII. TITMOUSE. 



SPE. II. GREAT TITMOUSE. 



PI. 1 1 8. 



Parus major. Lin. Syft. I. p. 341. 



Le Groffe Mefange, ou la Charbonniere. 



Br if. Orn. III. p. 539. 



This bird is five inches and three quarters in length, and weighs nearly an 

 ounce. The bill is black : eyes hazel : the head and throat black : the cheeks 

 white : neck, moulders, and middle of the back of a yellowifh green : the rump 

 blue : the breaft, belly, and thighs yellow, with a broad black line in the mid- 

 dle running from the throat to the vent : vent white : the quill feathers dufky, 

 edged partly with blue, partly with white ; the edges of the three next the body 

 green : wing coverts blue j the greater tipped with white, fo as to form a tranf- 

 verfe line of that colour : the exterior vanes of the tail feathers, except the out- 

 moft, blue or afh coloured, the interiour vanes black ; the outmoft have their 

 exteriour vanes and tips white: the legs lead- coloured. 



This fpecies builds in hollow trees, laying from eight to twelve white e°-a S , 

 fpotted with bright red, moftly fo at the larger end. Its flelh is not good to 

 eat, being bitter. To what varieties this bird may be fubject we cannot fay, 

 but a curious one is delineated in the frontifpiece of the firft volume of this, 

 work, which is worthy notice for its Angularity. 



For the egg, fee PI. XXVII. Fig. 1. 



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