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The great Titmouje or Ox-Ky^ Fringillago feu Parus 



major. 



Numb. XLVI. 



ITS Length from the tip of the Bill to the end of the Tail is fix In- 

 ches ; Breadth, when the Wings are extended, nine Inches and a 

 quarter; weight eleven Drams; its Bill is ftreight, black, half an Inch 

 long, and of a moderate thicknefs ; both Mandibles of equal Length ; 

 the Tongue broad, ending in four Filaments; the Feet of a lead or 

 blue Colour; the Head and Chin black. From the corners of the Mouth 

 on each fide, below the Eyes, a broad white Line or Spot pafTmg back- 

 ward takes up the Cheeks; on the hinder part of the Head is a white 

 Line which fcparates the black of the Head from the yellow of the Neck. 

 The Neck, Shoulders, and middle of the Back are of a yellowifh green ; 

 the Rump is blue; the Breaft, Belly and Thighs are yellow; yet the 

 lower or hindermoft part of the Belly white ; a broad black line, reach- 

 ing from the Throat to the Vent, divides the Breaft and Belly in twain. 

 The quill Feathers of the Wings are in number eighteen ; the outermoft 

 little ones are dusky, with white Tips, or Tips partly white, partly blue ; 

 the outer Edges of thofe next the Body are green. Of the covert Feathers 

 of the firft Row, thofe that are about the middle of the Wing, with 

 their whitifh Tips, make a tranfverfe whitifh Line; the fmaller covert 

 Feathers of the Wings are blue j the tail is about two Inches and a half 

 long, compounded of twelve Feathers, the exterior Vanes of all which, 

 except the outermoft, are blue or dark afti colour'd, the interior black, 

 the outermoft have their exterior Vanes and Tips of white. Thefe Birds 

 feed alfo on Caterpillars and the Eggs of thofe Infedls which infeft the 

 Frutt-Trees, 



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