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CRIMSON-RUMPED TITMOUSE. 

 (Parus peregrmus.) 



Pa, uropygio coccineo, corpore cinereo subtus albo. 



Titmouse with a crimson rump, cinereous body, beneath white. 



Parus peregrinus. Lin. Syst, Nat. i. 342. 10. — GmeL Syst, 



Nat. I. lOlO.— Lath. Lid. Orn. 2. 564. 4. 

 Parus coccineus. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 101 7. 

 Crimson-rumped Titmouse. Lath. Gen. Syn. 4. 539. 



The male of this bird has the beak whitish : the 

 head, neck, and back, ash-colour : between the 

 beak and eye, and under the latter, dusky : front 

 of the neck and breast deep orange-colour : upper 

 part of the wings black, with the bases of some of 

 the feathers orange, forming a spot of that colour 

 on them : under part pale yellow : rump orange- 

 colour : vent whitish : tail black, all but the four 

 middle feathers tipped with orange : female paler 

 above, with the whole of the under parts dusky 

 white : rump and spot on the wings orange, the 

 latter palest : in other respects she resembles the 

 male, except in having more of the tail-feathers 

 tipped with orange. Native place unknown. 



INDIAN TITMOUSE. 

 (Parus indicus.) 



Pa. cinereus subtus albidus, pectore abdomine crissoque Jerrugi- 

 neiSf rostro pedibus alis caudaque nigro^uscis. 



