OF BIRDS. 
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It has been remarked that this intereftmg 
fongfter lings for near two hours, with fcarcely 
any intermiffion ; and after a refpite of about 
two hours, begins again its delightful melody. 
GENUS 78 . P A R U S. 
The bill is drait, flrong, bard, and flwp pointed. 1 be 
aodrils are round, and covered with bridles, which are re- 
Hefted or turned back over them, from the bafe of t> beak. 
The tongue appears as though cut off at the end, and is ter¬ 
minated by three or four bridles. 
The Titmoufe Genus, feems to have a near 
affinity with feveral birds of the order Picas, par¬ 
ticularly the Woodpecker, Creeper, &c. Lilcc 
them they often build in hollow trees, and creep 
•along the under fide of the branches, or run up 
and down the trunk, feeking for infects, in the 
irregularities of the bark. Some fpecies of the 
Titmoufe, like the Oriole, make a pendulous 
neft. Indeed, from feveral circumflances in their 
general habits, they feem to conflitute a miniature 
refemblance with feveral of the Picas. 
Mod; birds of this genus are apparently weak, 
becaufe they are generally diminutive in fize; 
but they are at the fame time fprightly, adtive, 
and fpirited. In conftant adtion, flitting from 
tree to tree, hopping from one branch to another, 
H 2 climbing 
