JAPAN TITMOUSE. 



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In length six inches : plumage above dusky : 

 sides of the head, and orbits of the eye, white 5 

 neck on each side with a stripe of the same colour: 

 hind head with a white spot: chin, throat, and 

 breast, black : belly dirty white : quills brown : 

 tail black : the outer web of the exterior feathers 

 white; the next to it tipped with white: legs 

 black. Inhabits the Cape of Good Hope. De- 

 scribed by Dr. Latham. 



JAPAN TITMOUSE. 

 (Parus japonicus.) 



Pa. gula et capite nigris, nucha fascia alba x>el lutea^ dor so cine- 

 reo, suhtus alba. 



Titmouse with a black head and throat, white or yellowish 

 band on the nape, ash-coloured back, and under parts of the 

 body white. 



Parus palustris. y. Lath, Ind, Orn. 2. 566, Q, 

 Marsh Titmouse. Lath, Gen, Syn, 4. 542. 8. b. 



Taken off the coast of Japan, and described as 

 a variety of the Marsh Titmouse by Dr. Latham, 

 which it is very much like, but differs chiefly in 

 having a black chin and coloured nape ; all the 

 rest of the under parts of the body white : one 

 sex has the whole head black, with a white band 

 across the hind part : the other has the top of the 

 head only black, with the nape yellowish. 



