PARUS ATER- 
COLE MO USE. 
Generic Character, See Farm major. 
Parus Ater, dorso cinereo, capite nigro, occipite 
pectoreque aibo. 
CoLEMOusE. Head glossy black, back cinereous, 
hind-head white. 
Parus Ater. Lin. Si/st, v. L p. 341. GmeL Lin. 
St/sL V, 2. p, 1009. Gesner Av. 64L 
Ran Syn. Av. 73. Will Orn, 241. 
Lath. Ind, Orn. v. 2. p. 564, Fauna 
Suee. 268, 
Parus Atricapillus. JBriss. v. 2. p. 55L 
Le Petite Charbonniere. Hist, d'Ois. V. 5. p. 400. 
Mesange Petite Charbonniere. Temm. Man. 
Dm. ed. 3. pt. 1. p. 288. 
CoiiEMOusE. Br. Zool. 8i?o. ed. v. I. p. 535. Arct 
Zool. V. 2. 327. Lath. Syn. v. 4. p. 540. 
Lewin's Br. Birds, v. 3. t. 180. Mont. 
Orn. Diet. ib. Sup. Bewick's Br. Birds, 
pt. 1. p. 247. Gen. Zool. v. 10. pt. L 
p. 57. pL 6. 
Egg. Ov. Brit. pt. 1. 
W^EIGHT of this diminutive species two drams and a Half, 
length four inches and a quarter; the bill is short and blunts 
irides dark hazel 5 legs lead colour ; colours of the sexes 
alike. 
This species is very generally confounded ^lihP.palustris^ 
from which it is readily distinguishable by its glossy blaefe 
