270 TITMOUSE. 



28— NEW-ZEALAND TITMOUSE. 



Parus Novae Zealandiae, Ind. Om. ii. 571. Gm. Lin.i. 1013. 

 New-Zealand Titmouse, Gen. Syn. iv. 558. Shaw's Zool. x. p. 47. 



LENGTH five inches. Bill brown, tip dusky; forehead rufous; 

 body above pale cinereous red, mixed with brown ; over the eye a 

 white streak ; beneath it, and sides of the head, cinereous; under 

 parts pale rufous grey; quills pale brown ; tail like the back; the 

 two middle feathers black, the others marked with a square brown 

 spot about the middle of each ; legs dusky. 



Met with at Dusky Bay, New-Zealand, called Tde Tde.— Sir 

 Joseph Banks. 



29— GREAT-HEADED TITMOUSE— Pl. ex. 



Parus macrocephalus, Ind. Om. ii. 571. Gm. Lin. i. 1013. 



Great-headed Titmouse, Gen. Syn. iv. 557. pl. 55. Shaw's Zool. x. p. 51. pl. 5. 



LENGTH four inches and a half. Bill small, pale, with a few 

 weak bristles at the base; head very full of feathers, giving it a 

 disproportionate appearance; head, neck, and back, dusky black ; 

 on the forehead, just over the bill, a spot of white; on the wing a 

 white bar ; breast orange ; the rest of the under parts buflf-yellow, 

 mixed with black on the thighs ; tail long, rounded at the end, 

 black ; the two outer feathers white, with black ends, divided ob- 

 liquely, the adjoining one white within near the tip ; legs dusky 

 brown. The female is pale brown above, beneath yellow ; the bill 

 and white spot on the forehead as in the male. 



Inhabits Queen Charlotte's Sound, New-Zealand, and there 

 called Mirro-Mirro. — Sir Joseph Banks. 



