CHICADEE, OR BLACK-CAPT TITMOUSE. 
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This species is 6J inches long, and 9 in the stretch of the wings. 
Above, dark bluish-ash ; the front black tinged with reddish. Beneath 
sullied white, except the sides under the wings, which are pale red- 
dish-brown. Legs and feet greyish blue. Bill black. Iris hazel. 
The crest high and pointed, like that of the common Blue Jay. Tail 
slightly forked. Tips of the wings dusky. Tongue blunt ending in 
4 sharp points. Female very similar to the male. 
CHICADEE, or BLACK-CAPT TITMOUSE. 
(Parus pcilustris, L.,P. atricapillus , Xb. Wilson, i.p. 134. pi. 8. fig. 4. 
Philad. Museum, No. 7380:) 
Sp. Charact. — Not crested; grey, tinged with brown; the head 
above and ridge of the neck black ; the black on the throat not 
extended; cheeks and beneath white, faintly tinged with greyish 
brown ; tail 2 inches long. — In the female the black is less deep, 
and less apparent on the throat. 
This familiar, hardy, and restless little bird inhabits 
both Europe and North America. In the latter conti- 
nent it is even resident in winter around Hudson’s 
Bay, and has been met with at 62° on the Northwest 
Coast. It is, indeed, difficult to say in what part 
of the United States it is most common, so generally 
and equally has it colonized the temperate parts. In 
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