TITMOUSE. 273 



34— SCARLET-HEADED TITMOUSE. 



Le Forestier a tete ecarlate, Voy. d'Azara, iii. No. 119. 



LENGTH five inches, breadth seven. Bill dusky, bluish beneath; 

 that, and the eye, surrounded with black, the rest of the head deep 

 scarlet; wing coverts black above, white beneath; second coverts 

 and quills dusky, margined with blue; the rest of the plumage slaty 

 grey, paler beneath. Both sexes nearly alike. 



Inhabits Paraguay. — It seems to bear much resemblance to the 

 Crimson-crowned Finch ; but scarcely can be the same, as it is 

 unusual for one and the same species to inhabit such opposite climes, 

 as Paraguay and Greenland. 



35— HUDSONIAN TITMOUSE. 



Parus Hudsonicus, Inch Orn. ii. p. 566. Gm. Lin. i. 1013. Ph. Trans, lxii. p. 430. 



I. Fr. Miller, t. 21. A. 

 Parus atricapillus, Black-capped Titmouse, Amer. Orn. i. pi. 8. f. 4. 

 Hudson's Bay Titmouse, Gen. Syn. \y\ 557. Id. Sup, 190. Arct. Zool. ii. No. 329. 



Phil. Trans, lxii. 408. Shaw's Zool. x. p. 53. 



LENGTH five inches and a half ; breadth seven ; weight half an 

 ounce. Bill black; the head ferruginous brown; beneath the eyes a 

 white streak ; throat black ; back greenish ash-colour ; breast and 

 belly white; sides of the belly ferruginous; wings brown; quills 

 edged with cinereous ; tail two inches and a half long, a little rounded 

 at the end, coloured as the quills : rump rufous white ; all the feathers 

 of this bird are long and loose, black at the base ; legs black ; the 

 middle and hind claws twice as long as the rest. Male and female 

 alike. — Inhabits Hudson's Bay, seen among the juniper plains and 

 oak woods the whole year ; in winter flying in small flocks, a little 

 way at a time ; builds among the junipers in June, making a nest of 

 grass, lined with feathers ; the young take wing at the beginning of 



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