TITMOUSE. 269 



Parus caeruleo albus, Spalowsch. Vog. i. t. 39. 



cseruleus major, Bris. iii. 548. Id. 8vo. i. 463. 



— — Ssebyensis, Gm.Lin.i. 1008. Mus. Carls, fasc. i. t. 25. 

 La grosse Mesange bleue, Buf. v. 455. 



Azure Titmouse, Gen.Syn.\v. 538. Id. Sup. 189. Arct. Zool. ii. 420. C. Id. Sup. 

 p. 64. Shaw's Zool. x. p. 39. 



SIZE of the Greater Titmouse ; length five inches and a half. 

 Bill blackish blue, sides of it dirty white ; forehead, crown, cheeks, 

 and all beneath, white, except an irregular, oblong, blue mark, from 

 the breast to the middle of the belly ; and a blue stripe from the bill, 

 through the eyes, to the hindhead ; beneath this a pale band ; back 

 and rump pale blue ; upper tail coverts deep blue, tipped with white, 

 blue, and lead-colour; the first forming a band across the wing ; 

 quills brown ; the inner edge of the primaries white, the outer blue, 

 towards the tip white; secondaries white at the tips ; tail blue; the 

 outer edges of the feathers whitish, most so in proportion as they are 

 more outward ; the exterior has the outer web wholly white ; legs 

 black. 



Inhabits the northern parts of Europe ;* is found in Sudermania, 

 also in great abundance in the northern woods of Siberia and Russia, 

 and about Synbirsk, in the government of Casan. It is migratory, 

 appearing in winter about the houses in St. Petersburg ; twitters like 

 a Sparrow, but with a softer and sweeter note. 



27— KNJAESCIK TITMOUSE. 



Parus Knjaescik, Ind. Orn. ii. 572. Gm. Lin. i. 1012. Lepech. It. i. 181. 

 Knjaescik Titmouse, Gen. Syn. Sup. ii. 256. Shaw's Zool. x. p. 45. 



THIS bird is said to be white, with a livid collar, a stripe of the 

 same through the eyes, and a continued stripe on the under parts of 

 the body. 



Inhabits the oak forests of Siberia. M. Temminck joins this 

 with the Azure Titmouse. 



* Aldrovandus says, the East Indies ; but his bird had a black spot beneath the eyes, 

 and the crown, as well as the rest of the upper parts, of a pale blue ; irides yellow. 



