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BLUE TITMOUSE. 



forming a stripe across the wing : quills brown : 

 primaries with the inner edge white, the outer 

 blue: tips of all white: back and rump pale blue: 

 upper tail-coverts deep blue, with white tips : tail 

 blue, with the outer edges of the feathers whitish, 

 increasing in width to the exterior feather, which 

 has the whole of the outer web white : legs and 

 claws black : inhabits the northern parts of Europe 

 in great abundance, particularly in the forests of 

 Siberia and Russia : it is migratory, as it is only 

 found in the neighbourhood of St. Petersburgh in 

 the winter, most probably coming from the north : 

 it twitters like the Sparrow, but is much more 

 agreeable. 



BLUE TITMOUSE. 

 (Parus caeruleus.) 



Pa. olivacco mrescens suhtus luteus, remigibus ccErulesceniibus, 

 primoribus margine exteriore albis^Jronte alba^ vertice cceruleo, 



Olive-green Titmouse, beneath yellowish, with the quills blue, 

 the outer margin of the primaries white, forehead white, and 

 crown blue. 



Parus cseruleus. Li/n, Si/st. Nat„ l. 341. 5. — Lin. Faun, Suec. 

 2Q7'—Gmel. Syst, Nat. 1. ICOS. ^Briss. 3. 544. 2.— Lath. Ind. 

 Orn. 2. 566. 12. 



La Mesange bleue. Buff. Hist. Nat, Ois. 5. 413. — Buff. PI. 

 Enl. 3./. 2. 



Blue Titmouse. Penn. Brit, Zool. 1. l63. t. 57. f. 2. — Penn, Arct. 

 Zool. 2. 427. 8. — Albin. Birds. 1. 47. — Lath. Gen. Syn. 4. 543. 

 10.— 'BemcJc. Brit. Birds. 1. 239. — Mont. Brit, Birds, 1. — 

 Mont. Sup. — Shaw. Nat. Misc. 138. — Don, Brit, Birds. 57. — 

 L&um, Brit. Birds. 3, 120. 



