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10— NORWAY TITMOUSE. 



Parus Stromei, Ind. Orn. ii. 563. 



Parus ignotus, Gm. Lin. i. 1006. Brun. p. 73. 



Strotnian Titmouse, Arct. Zool. ii. 426. B. 



Norway Titmouse, Gen. Syn. iv. 537. Shaw's Zool. x. p. 70. 



SIZE of the Great Titmouse. Bill black, beneath yellow ; 

 throat yellow ; neck, and all the upper parts of the body, yellow 

 green ; breast yellow, spotted with chestnut ; belly blue, near the 

 vent yellowish ; tail bifurcated, in colour like the back ; the two 

 outer feathers margined with white ; legs black, the hind claw three 

 times as long as the others. 



Inhabits Norway, supposed, by M. Brunnich, to be a Variety of 

 the Greater Species, but it has no black on the head ; found by Mr. 

 Strom, in Sondmor. 



11— LUGUBROUS TITMOUSE. 



Parus lugubris, Tern. Man. Ed. ii. 293. 



LENGTH six inches. Bill and legs deep grey ; top of the head 

 black ; throat, some part before, and sides of the neck, the same ; 

 nape, back, and scapulars, cinereous brown ; wings and tail cinereous, 

 the feathers fringed with whitish ash ; temples, and all the under 

 parts of the body, greyish white; irides brown. 



Inhabits the South of Europe; common in Dalmatia, but never 

 seen in Austria, nor any part of Germany, neither has it been 

 observed hitherto in Italy. It is certainly very like the last Species, 

 and may be easily confounded with it; but M. Temminck, strength- 

 ened by the authority of Dr. Pallas,* is confirmed in its being 

 distinct. 



* In his Fauna Rossica, a work which we have not yet seen. 



