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$. VI. 



The blue Titmoufe or Nun: Parus csruleus. 



THe Bill of this Bird is pretty fhort, thick, (harp, and of a dusky blackifh co- 

 lour : The Tongue broad, ending in four filaments: The Legs of a lead-co- 

 lour : The outmoft Toes at bottom are faftned to the middle ones. 



The Head being of an azure colour is encompalled with a circle of white as it were 

 a Wreath or Coronet. To the white circle fucceeds another particoloured, encom- 

 paffing the Throat and hinder part of the Head, above being almoft of the (ame co- 

 lour with the Head, towards the Throat and under the Throat black. BeloW this 

 circle on the Neck is a white fpot. From the Bill a black line panes through the Eyes 

 to the hinder part of the Head. The Cheeks are white r The Back is of a yellowifh 

 green. The fides, Breaft, and Belly yellow 5 lave that a whitiih line produced as far as 

 the Vent divides the Breaft in two. In the Cock-bird the Head is more blue, in the 

 Hen and young one's lefs. 



The tips of the quil-feathers next the body are white, as alfo the outer edges of the 

 foremoft from the middle part upward. The covert-feathers of the Wings are blue, 

 the innermoft of whichwith their white tips make a white line crofs the Wing. The 

 Tail is two inches long, of a blue colour, only the edges of the outmoft feathers are 

 a little white. 



Its weight is three drachms: Its length from Bill-point to Tail-end four inches and 

 an half, to the Claws four : Its breadth, the Wings extended, eight inches. The 

 quil-feathers in each Wing eighteen, befides the outmolt fhort one : The Tail-fea- 

 thers twelve. 



f VII. 



The creJiedTitmoufe 5 Parus criftatus Aldrov. 



THis hath a pretty fhort big Bill, of a blackifh colour. Its Tongue is broad, and 

 divided into four filaments. Its Feet of a lead-colour. The outer Toes for 

 fome (pace from their divarication joyned to the middle one. The crown of the 

 Head black, the edges of the feathers being white. At the hinder part of the Head 

 begins a black line, which like a Wreath or Collar encompafTes the Neck. From the 

 lower Mandible of the Bill to this Collar is a black line produced. To the Collar 

 and Chin is another bed or border of white contiguous. But beyond the Ears is a 

 fpot of black. The middle of the Breaft is whiter the fides fomething red. The 

 Wings and Tail are dusky, only the exteriour edges of the feathers fomewhat green. 

 The Back from red inclining to green. 



It weighs two drachms and an half: Is from the tip of the Bill to the end of the 

 Tail five inches long : From tip to tip of the Wings extended eight inches and a quar- 

 ter broad. The quil-feathers of the Wings are eighteen in number, the Tail-fea- 

 thers twelve. The Tail two inches long. The Bill from the tip to the corners of the 

 mouth half an inch. 



§. VIII. 



The long-tail'd Titmoufe. Parus caudatus. 



THe crown of this Bird is white: The Neck black. From the Bill above the 

 Eyes on each fide to the hinder-part of the Head is a broad black line pro- 

 duced. The Jaws and Throat are white. The Breaft white, varied with fmall dusky 

 lpots. The Belly and fides of a dilute Chefnut colour: Of which, but mixt with 

 black, both the Back and alfo the Hump partake. 



The quil-feathers of the Wings are of an obfcure dusky colour, the outer edges 

 of the interiour of thefe are white. The Angular ftructure or conformation of the 

 feathers of the Tail difference this Bird from all other fmall birds of what kind fo- 

 ever. For the outmoft feathers are the fhorteft, the reft in order longer to the mid- 

 dlemoft, which are the longeft, and that by a notable difference or excels, as in the 

 Magpie. Of the outmoft feather on each fide the top and outer half from the fhaft is 



white: 



