PARUS CAUDATUS. 
LONG- TAILED TIT MO USE. 
Generic Character. See Parus major. 
Synonyms. 
Parus caudatus. Lin, Syjl. i. p, 342. !!• Ind, 
Orn. 2, p, 569. 20. 
Long-tailed Titmouse. Br. ZooL 1. 166. Ijith, 
Syn, 4. p. 550. y^/'^- ^- 190. 
Mont, Orn, Di^, Vol. 2, Bewick'iBn 
Birds^ Ft. 1. p. 248. 
I S elegant little fpecies is about five inches and a half 
in length, fix and a half in breadth, and weighs nearly four 
drams. Bill very fhort ; feathers on the head and cheeks 
rough, and always eredt ; irides hazel ; edges of the eye-lids 
yellow \* tail very long, the fecond feathers from the centre 
being three inches and a half in length, the middle ones 
rather fhorter, thofe on the outfide gradually declining, the 
Ihorteft not exceeding an inch and a half ; legs and claws 
ftrong. Colours of the fexes alike, the female exceeds in 
weight nearly one dram. 
Though numerous in fome parts, the long-tailed is not fo 
generally difperfed as either the greater, the blue, or the marlh 
Titmoufe, but is moft ufually found in low moift fituations, 
that are covered with underwood, and interfperfed with lofty 
oaks or elms. In fuch places it builds \ its neft differs from all 
the other fpecies with which we are acquainted ; it mofi: 
generally is placed in the forked branch of a large tree, that 
overhangs the water, and is compofed of mofs and lichens, 
interwoven 
