254 TITMOUSE. 



Mr. Abbot says, that this bird is common in Georgia at all times, 

 and breeds there ; the egg white, marked with minute ferruginous 

 spots, chiefly at the larger end ; and that the upper tail coverts are 

 not always dirty white, but like the rest of the upper parts. 



The female differs in being duller in colour ; the white on the 

 sides of the head smaller in extent, and beneath the body dusky 

 white.— It has by some been ranked with our Marsh Titmouse, but 

 we scarcely think that it is the same with that Species. 



9.— LOUISIANE TITMOUSE. 



Parus palustris, Ind. Orn. ii. 565. 9. (3. Gen. Syn. iv. 541. A. 

 Mesange a Gorge noire, PI. enl. 502. 1. 



THIS is four inches and a half long, and much like the Marsh 

 Titmouse, but wants the white spot on the hindhead, as well as the 

 traces of white on the wings; the colours, however, seem much 

 deeper, and the black spot on the throat much larger ; the tail a trifle 

 cuneiform. In the female the head is rufous grey, much like the 

 upper part of the body, but darker. 



Inhabits Louisiana, but the description in Buffbn does not entirely 

 correspond with the PI enlum. referred to, for the bird there measures 

 five inches; the top of the head, neck behind, and back olive green; 

 sides of the head and all beneath white ; chin and throat black, with 

 some scattered marks of black across the top of the breast ; wings 

 black, the feathers edged with white; tail brown, rather hollowed 

 at the end, the outer feathers white on the outer edge. I suspect 

 these two to be different birds, nor am I quite positive that the Marsh 

 Titmouse is found in North America.* 



* See Canada Titmouse. 



