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GREAT-HEADED TITMOUSE. 51 



low : under parts of the body grey : legs and 



claws brown : both sexes are similar. Inhabits 

 Virginia. 



GREAT-HEADED TITMOUSE. 

 (Parus macrocephalus.) 



Pa. 7i'iger\ abdomine alhido, pectore suhfulvo, f route maculaque 

 alarum albis. 



Black Titmouse, with the abdomen white, breast slightly fulvous, 



forehead and spot on the wings white. 

 Parus macrocephalus. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 1013. — Lath, Ind, 



Orn. 2. 571. 26. 

 Great-headed Titmouse. Lath, Gen, Si/n. 4. 557. 24. t. 55. 



This singular looking bird is figured and thus 

 described by Dr. Latham. " It is in length four 

 inches and a half : beak small, pale, and furnished 

 with a few weak bristles at the base : the head 

 very full of feathers, appearing very dispropor- 

 tionate to the size of the bird : the head, neck, 

 and back, dusky black : on the forehead, just over 

 the beak, a spot of white : on the wing a bar of 

 white : the breast is orange ; the rest of the under 

 parts buff yellow, with a mixture of black on the 

 thighs : the tail is long and rounded in shape ; 

 the colour of it black ; the two outer feathers 

 white, with the ends black, divided obliquely; the 

 next white within near the tip : legs dusky brown : 

 female is pale brown above ; all beneath yellow : 



