TITMOUSE. 253 



In Sepp's Plate the two are figured as male and female of one 

 species.* The nest composed of sedgy reeds, with a portion of the 

 leaves, and the head of a Tipha, and the lining of the same down and 

 feathers; the eggs white, five in number, mottled with red-brown; 

 in one bird a white spot on the hindhead, and the sides of the head 

 white ; throat black : in the other the top of the head wholly black, 

 but no black mark on the throat. 



This species inhabits the greater part of Europe ; is common in 

 Kamtschatka, and will bear the hardest frosts. 



8— CANADA TITMOUSE. 



Parus atricapillus, Lid. Om. ii. 566. Lin. i. 341. Gm. Lin. i. 1008. Bris. iii. 553. 



t. 29. 1. Id. 8vo. i. 464. Ph. Trans, lxii. p. 407. 

 La Mesange a tete noire, Bnf. v. 408. 

 Canada Titmouse, Gen. Syn. iv. 548. Arct. Zool. ii. No. 32S. Shaw's Zool. x. p. 52. 



SIZE of the Marsh Titmouse; length four inches and a half. 

 Crown and throat black; neck behind, scapulars, and lesser wing 

 coverts, deep ash-colour, paler towards the rump ; upper tail coverts 

 dirty white; sides of the head, and all beneath, white; thighs cine- 

 reous ; greater wing coverts brown, edged with grey ; quills brown, 

 edged outwardly with grey, and within with whitish ; tail brown, a 

 trifle forked, the feathers edged grey, the two middle cinereous; 

 legs blackish. 



Inhabits Canada and Hudson's Bay, and as high as latitude 64. 

 30. on the west side of America ; continues about Albany Fort, the 

 whole year, most numerous in cold weather, probably compelled for 

 want of food elsewhere ; makes a twittering noise, compared to 

 Kiss-kiss-keshish. The late Mr. Hutchins, from whom I received a 

 specimen, informed me, that it chiefly lives on worms and insects, 

 and found among the junipers at Hudson's Bay in the winter, and 

 said not only to feed on flies, but also on the sprigs of the Sprig Birch. 



* By the name of Parus palustris. 



