T A B . XXI.
P A R U S HUDSONICUS.
C H A R A C T E R GENERICUS.
Roflrum integerrimum, baii fetis tedium.
Lingua trimcata, letis terminata. LIN. SYST. NAT. p. 340.
C H A R A C T E R SPECIFICUS.
Parus cinereus, fubtus albus, pileo ferrugineo, fafcia gulari nigra, remigibus caudaque fuicis.
G E N E R I C CHARACTER.
Mill perfeiStly entire, covered at tlie bafe with briftles.
Tongue truncated, terminated by briftles.
S P E C I F I C CHARACTER, &c.
Aih-coloured Titmoufe, white beneath; with a ferruginous crown, a black band beneath the
throat, brown wing and tail-feadiers.
Hudfon's Bay Titmoufe. LATH. 2. p. 557-
THE birds of the genus Parus, exchifive of their generic charaélers, are commonly diftinguiflied
by the fmallnefs of their fize, their great fecundity, and their elegant mode of nidification. The
Parus caudatus, or long-tailed Titmoufe, a well-known fpecies, conftrufts one of the moft
curious nefts of almoft any European bird, and lays a furpnfing number of eggs ; frequently
not lefs than twelve or fourteen, and fometimes as many as eighteen. The Pari in general are
natives of the temperate and colder climates. They feed both on vegetable and animal food;
their motions are lively, and their difpofidons aftive. The ijaccies here reprefented is a nadvc
of North America, and is particularly found at Hudfon's Bay, where it braves the fevcreft
winters of that frozen climate. There is fomcthing peculiarly wonderful in the conftitution of
feveral of the fmaller birds, which enables them to fupport, without much inconvenience, a
degree of cold fo hurtful to the major part of the animal world.
T A B . XXI. FIG. B.
E M B E R I Z A HYEMALIS.
For the Characters of the Genus Emberiza fee TAB. III.
C H A R A C T E R SPECIFICUS, &c.
Emberiza nigra, ventre albo. LIN. SYST. NAT. p. 308.
PaiTer nivalis. CATESB. CAR. i . p. 36. t. 36.
S P E C I F I C CHARACTER, &c.
Black Emberiza, with white belly. LIN.
B l a c k Bunting. LATH. 2. p. 166. PENNANT'S ARCT. ZOOL. p.359.
THIS fpecies, though named in the Plate Fringilla Hudfonica, is the Emberiza hyemalis of
Linnccus. It is a North American ijjccies, and is found in great plenty in Carolina and Virginia;
it is iliid chiefly to frequent the plains; but in very ievere weather, and particularly
during the fall of iiiow, it aflembles in prodigious flocks, and fetdes in the neighbourhood of
barns and houfes, to pick up grain, &c. This fpecies is faid to undergo no alteration of colour
during winter, in which particulai" it differs greatly from another fpecies to which it is very
nearly allied, viz. the Emberiza nivalis of Linnccus.