PARUS MAJOR. 
GREAT TITMOUSEr 
Generic Character. 
Bill compreffed, ftraight, fliort, and Iharp-pointed. 
Noftrils round, covered by the vebnffea. . 
Tongue laciniated, points terminating nearly on a line. 
Toes fepaKate, hind- one the longeft. 
Synonyms. 
Parus Major. Lin. Syji. u p. 34^- 3- 
Great Titmouse or Ox-Eye. Br. Zool. i. 162. 
Ik fol. 113. tab. JV- fig- 4- Latb. 
Syn. A- 536- 1- Mont. Orn. Din. 
Bewick's Br. Birds, Pi. 1. p. 244- 
XhIS fpecies is in length near fix inches, in breadth about 
nine inches, and weighs nearly three-quarters of an ounce ; 
bill ihort, hard, and very ftrong ; eyes large and black ; legs 
ftrong ; claws ftarp and much curved, that on the hind-toe 
much longer and more curved. The colours of the female 
,re like thofe of the male, except being fomewhat duller, and 
in the breeding feafon the breaft and belly incline to cinereous. 
The Great Titmouse (or Joe Bent) is to be met wuh 
in almoa every garden ; its habits and economy are very fimi- 
lar to thofe of the blue titmoufe, but it is more darmg, and 
will, during the time of incubation, fcarcely fufFer any bird to 
approach its neft, it will even attack the magpie, Ihould 
