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ORD. III. GEN. XII. TITMOUSE. 

 SPE. VI. LONG-TAILED TITMOUSE. 



PI. 122. 



Parus caudatus. Lin. Syft. I. p. 342. 



La Mefange a longue queue. Brif. Orn.lll. p. 570. 



This elegant fpecies is nearly five inches and half in length. The bill is 

 black, very ftiort, thick, and convex, differing greatly from all others of the 

 titmoufe genus ; the bafe of it is befet with fmall bridles : the eyes are hazel : 

 the top of the head is white, mixed with a few dark grey feathers, and fur- 

 rounded by a broad {break of black, like a crown, from the middle of which a 

 fimilar ftreak is continued down the neck and back as far as the rump : the 

 feathers on each fide of this black ftreak are of a purplifri red : the lefs wing 

 coverts are black ; the greater brown, edged with rofe colour, and tipped with 

 white : the quills dufky, the fmaller ones having their exteriour fides edged 

 with white : the cheeks and throat are white : the bread and belly white, with 

 a caft of red. The tail is longer in proportion to its bulk than that of any 

 other Britifti bird, being in length three inches : it refembles in lhape that of 

 a magpie, confiding of twelve feathers of unequal lengths, the outer ones being 

 much the fhorteft : the exteriour fides and top of the interiour fides of the 

 three outmod are white, the reft of the tail black. 



This bird makes a very ' curious neft of mofs, liverwort, and wool, warmly 

 lined with a thick bed of feathers. It is of an oval fhape, with a fmall 

 hole for entrance, and often contains twenty eggs, for which fee PI. XXVII. 

 Fig- 5- 



