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16— PENDULINE TITMOUSE. 



Parus pendulinus, Ind. Orn. ii. p. 568. Lin. i. 342. Gm. Lin. i. J014. Georgi, 175. 



Borowsk, iii. 178. t. 71. Decouv.russ-i. 480. Encycl. Brit. Vol. xiii. pi. 377. 



Tern. Man. d 'Orn. 176. Id. Ed. ii. 301. 

 Parus palustris, Gerin. iv. t. 378. 1. /</. t. 380 — bird and nest. 

 Parus Polonicus, sive pendulinus, Bris. iii. 565. t. 29. 2. /rf. 8vo. i. 467. Act. Bonon. 



ii. 57. t. 7. 

 Parus Lithuanicus, Klein, 86. 10. Id. Stem. 17. 1. 17. f. 13. a— b. 

 Mesange de Pologne, Remiz, Buf. v. 423. PL enl. 618.3. I. D. Titius Dissert, cum 



Tab. 2. Globiez Remiz. tab. 2. avis cum nido. Rzaczynsk. Polon. i. 294. 

 Cotton-Vogel, Gunth. Nest. u. Ey. t. 4. 

 Mountain Titmouse, Albin, iii. pi. 57. 

 Penduline Titmouse, Gen. Syn. iv. 547- Coxe's Trav. i. pi. in p. 218. bird and nest. 



Wood 's Zoogr. i. p. 493. S/iaw's Zool. x. p. 66. 



SIZE of the Blue Titmouse, four inches and a half long. Bill 

 ash-colour; fore part of the head whitish ; behind it, and the neck, 

 cinereous ; upper part of the back, and scapulars, rufous grey ; the 

 lower part and rump grey ; forehead black, lengthening backwards 

 into a band under the eye; throat, and neck before, very pale ash- 

 colour ; the rest of the under parts pale rufous ; lesser wing coverts 

 brown, tipped with rufous ; the greater blackish, with chestnut edges, 

 and tipped with pale rufous; quills and tail brown, margined with 

 white; legs reddish grey; claws blackish. The female wants the 

 black streak through the eye. 



Inhabits chiefly Poland, whence its name in some authors; also 

 Italy, Siberia,* and the intermediate parts; the most curious cir- 

 cumstance of this species is the nest, being of a most singular 

 construction, in shape roundish, not unlike that of the Long-tailed 

 Titmouse, but composed of still finer materials : this bird frequents 

 watery places, and feeds on aquatic insects ; the nest is made of the 



* Common in Russia; in greatest plenty at Sundaef, on the River Yaick, though they 

 are seen along the Wolga, — Decouv. Russ. i. 480. Id. iii. 363. Some have been observed 

 weaving their nests about the Angara, and the Rivers beyond Lake Baikal. 



