S ID The Hijlory <?/"ANIMAL3. 
lowito, approaching to lemon colour; the bread and belly are of the fame colour 
only yellower : the long feathers of the wings, and thofe of the tail, are of a dulkv 
brown, but they are fomewhat brown at the edges. * 
This is frequent in molt parts of Europe ■ we have it in England, but left common 
than ellewhere. Authors call it Regulus alius, and Regulus alius non cridatus. 
P A R U S. 
T H E beak of the Paras is of a Tubulated form ; the point of the tongue is trun¬ 
cated, or, as it were, cut off abruptly, and is terminated by four bristles. 
Parus capite nigro, temporibus albis , nucha lutea* 
*The Parus , with a black and white head\ and a yellow neck . XltHiOUit* 
This is the larged of the whole family of the Pari; the fize is nearly that of the 
gold-finch : the head is depreffed ; the eyes are hazel; the beak is brown and bright: 
the back is of a fhining black; the top of the head is alfo of a deep gloffy black but 
the tides of it are white : the upper part of the throat is black, and the fpot is conti¬ 
nued till it joins the blacknefs on the head ; th<bre runs alfo an oblong fpot of black 
from that of the neck, quite down to the bread: the upper part of the neck is yel¬ 
low, and the fhoulders, from an admixture of that yellow, and the black of the back, 
appear greenifh : the bread and the belly are yellow ; the wings and tail are greyidi 
and their principal feathers are black, with fome variegation. 
This is fiequent in the woods in fome parts of England, efpecially about watery 
places. _ All the writers on birds have defcribed it. They call it Fringillago and Pa- 
rus major. 
Parus capite criftato, 
‘The Parus , with a crefted head. Crefet) XlttllOUfC. 
This is a very pretty bird, but it is condderably fmaller than the former : the head 
is fmall; the eyes are hazel; the beak is fhort and brown: the back is of a gloffy 
greyifh-brown ; the wings and tail are of a greyifh-black: the belly is white, but the 
feathers have a blacknefs on their infide: the head is ornamented on the crown 
with a feries of feathers longer than the others, which naturally dand in an ere<ff, or 
nearly eredt, podure: the head itfelf is of a mixed black and white colour; the fea¬ 
thers are all black toward the bafe, and white at the tip; there is a black fpace behind 
the eyes, and a black collar about the neck : the tail is fhort, and the legs are bluifh. 
Authors call it Parus cridatus. 
Parus vertice cceruleo, alis albo variegatis . 
The blue-headed Parus , with black and white wings . 
XI) e Mite 
Xftmoufe* 
This is a very fmall bird, it is little larger than our common wren : the head is 
imall and depreffed; the eyes are hazel, and the beak is black : the anterior part of the 
head is white; the crown of it is blue, and the ddes or temples white: there runs a 
blue line from each fide of the head near the eyes, and joins the blue on the crown • 
this is continued to the throat, and there fpreads into a large and elegant black fpot: 
the bread is yellow ; the ddes alfo have their (hare of yellow : the belly is white to¬ 
ward the hinder part: the long feathers of the wings are black, but blue at the edges • 
and thofe which immediately cover their bafes are blue, fpotted with white : the back 
in it s upper part is greenifh, in it’s lower darker; the upper part of the neck is white; 
the legs are black. 
This is frequent in mod parts of Europe. Authors call it Parus cseruleus ; we, 
the blue Titmoufe. . 
Parus 
