PLATE UXXIX. 
Cotemouse. Rai Syn. p. 73. A. 2. 
: Will, Orn. p. 241. te 43. 
Penn. Br. Zool. 1. N° 164. pl. 57. ff. 3. 
—— Ar. Zool. a . | 
Lath. Gen. Syn. 4. 540. 7. 
Suppl. 189. 8. 


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Parus Atricapillus. 
La Mefange a téte noire. Brif. Orn. 3. p. 551. N° 5 
La petite Charbonniere. “Buff: Oif. 5. p- 400. | 
Quatriefme efpece de Mefange. Belon. av. 370. 
Speermiefce, Creuzmeife. Kram. 379. 
Tannen Meife, (Pine Titmoufe). Frifch. 1. 13. 

It has been fuppofed by fome authors that the Parus Ater, and 
Parus Paluftris * of Linnzus were not diftin& f{pecies, but merely the 
two fexes of one ond: ea others Ware theught the latter only 4 
variety of the firft. Willughby is the firft author worthy of con- 
fideration who has noti¢ed the precife difference between the two 
_ birds. He fays the Marfh Titmoufe differs from the Colemoufe in 
thefe particulars : ift, that it is bigger: ad, that it wants the white 
{pot onthe head: 3d, it has a larger tail: ath, its under fide is white : 
sth, it has lefs black under the chin: 6th, it wants the white fpot on 
the covert of the wings. Mr, Pennant obferves on this account 
given by Willughby, that the laft diftinétion does not hold in ge- 
neral, as the fubject figured in the Briti/b Zoology had thofe {pots ; 
yet wanted that on the hind part of the head. 
* Marth Titmoufe. 
The 
