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BIRDS. PASSERES. 88. Parus, 6zi 
Biueifh-black ; throat and vent black; belly white. 
Black-throated M, 
4 inches. Bill and legs brown. 
Diifky-black, beneath pale yellowifh-orange ; edge of the 
quill-fcathers pale, of the wings pale yellowifh- 
Ofange. Orange-bellied M,^ 
Inhabits the Cape of Good Hope ; 4 inches long. 
Bill black ; legs dulky-black. 
Cinereous ; belly whitifh. Cinereous M. 
Length 3^ inches. 
Black, beneath orange ; front and rump yellow : crown 
and nape blue; chin and throat black. » Tuneful 
Inhabits 6i<. Domingo s 4 inches long ; is very fliy, and eafily 
eludes the vigilance of fuch as attempt to take it ; its note is 
mufical and forms a complete oftave, one note fucceeding 
another. 
Bill and legs black. 
^8. PARUS, Bill very entire, narrow, fub- 
comprefled, ftrong, hard, pointed, 
and covered at the bafe with briftles : 
tongue truncate, briftly at the end ; 
toes divided to the origin, the hind- 
one large and ftrong. Titmoufe* 
Tins is a very fertile tribe, laying 18 — 20 eggs at one hatch ; 
they feed on feeds, fruits and infefc, and a fesv on fleflr : 
ntod; of them are fond of the brains of other birds, which 
they get at by cleaving the fkull of fuch as they find dead ; 
they are reftlefs, bold, and cruel to birds lefs than themfeves, 
fc. and will attack fuch as are three times their own fize. 
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flead crefted, on the fore-part black ; body cinereous ; 
beneath pale whitifli-rufous. Toufet T. 
In^bits woods oP North America : 6 inches long. 
Bill black ; crejl pointed, grey ; orbits pale rufous ; quill and 
tail-feathers e(^ed with grey-rufous ; tail flightly forked ; 
legs lead-colour. 
Bemale, belly white. 
Crijlatus. 
