PARUS COERULEUS. 
BLUE TITMOUSE. 
Generic Character. See Parus Major, 
Synonyms. 
Parus Cceruleus. Lin. Syjl. i. p, 34i« 
Blue Titmouse^ Br. ZooL i. p. 163. tab. 57. LaiL 
Syn. j^. p. 543. Bewick's Br. Birds^ 
PL 1. p. 246. Mont. Orn. Di^. 
JL H I S lively little bird is in length rather more than four 
Inches; weighs about five drams and a half; bill llrong, 
fharp pointed, very thick at the bafe ; eyes large and lively ; 
legs flender ; toes divided to the bafe, the hinder claw very 
long ; in the female the colours are fomewhat duller than 
in the male. 
Few of our fmall birds have attraded more attention than 
the Blue Titmoufe, its delicate colours, adive motions, and 
familiar manners, feem to court particular notice ; it feeds prin» 
cipally on fmall infeds, to procure which it frequently com» 
mits confiderable injury to fruit trees, in removing the buds ; 
it moftly hangs from the branch, and examines with curious 
eye the fmalleft crevice, and will readily devour the eggs and 
larvse of all kinds of infeds ; nor is it always fatisfied with this 
kind 
