il.
TOUPET T .
D escription.
Female.
Place and
Manners.
■ or elpecially if one is broken : but when the young are hatched,
no bird defends them more courageoufly.
Its note confifts in general of a difagreeable ftiriek, except now
and then an attempt to warble; but then far from pleafing.
Farus bicolor, Lin. Syjt. i. p.340. N ° i.— Faun. Grom. p. 123* 83.
La Mefange hupee de la Caroline, Brif. orn. iii. p.561. N° 9 .— Buf. oif.
v. p. 4; 1.
Crelled Titmoufe, Catejb. Car. i. pL 57.
Toupet Titmoufe, Aril. Zool.
. Lev. Muf.
g I Z E of the Greater ‘Titmoufe: length fix inches. Bill five
lines and a half long, and of a black colour: on the fork-
head, juft over the bill, is a black fpot: the head is furnilhed
with a longilh pointed creft, which, with all the upper parts of
the body, is of a deep grey : the under parts reddifh white,
deepeft on the fides : quills and tail edged with rufous greys the
laft a trifle forked: legs lead-colour;'j
The. female differs from the male, in having the belly and fides
nearly white.
This bird inhabits Carolina and Virginia, where it is found the
whole year, and keeps chiefly in the woods, living on in feds, like
others of its race. It is alfo met with in Denmark and the fouth-
ern parts of Gro'enland, where i t i s ’ called Avingarfak. It flies'
fwiftly; and during flight folds up the wing frequently, when it
utters a weak note.
Parus
Parus criftatus, Lin. Syß. i. p. 340. N° 2. — Scof. ann. i. p. 16a. 243. —*
Kram. el. p. 379. N° 2. — Raii Syn. p. 74. N° 6. — Muller, p. 34.
N° 2S2.— G eorgi Reife, p. 175.— Frifcb. t. 14.
Le Mefange huppée, B rif orn. iii. p. 558. N° 8. —*5«/*. oif. v. p. 447. —
PI. enl. 502. f. 2.
Crefted Titmoufe, Raii Syn. p. 74. N° 6. •— Albin« ii. pl. 57. — Will, orn.
p. 242. t. 43.— Ar£t. Zool.
Br. Muf.
C I Z E of the Blue Titmoufe: weighs one third of an ounce:
0 length four inches and three quarters. Bill five lines and a
half, and blackilh: the forehead and fides of the head are white:
the top of the head is adorned with long feathers, of a black colour,
margined with white, which, when elevated, form a beautiful
creft, pointed at the top: the chin and throat are black, from
which pafifes a line of black to the hind head, bounding the
white on the cheeks at the under part: on the ears an irregular
fpot of black: the upper parts of the body, wings, and tail, are
rufous grey j the two laft deepeft : the under parts of the body
white : the fides have a rufous tinge : the legs lead-colour.
This bird is found in many parts of France, efpecially in Normandy
*, and in many parts between that and Sweden. It is in
the deep forefts that it is chiefly met with, and efpecially among
the evergreen trees, infomuch that it is fcented with their refinous
odour. It is faid to be fond of folitude j never mixing with other
birds, nor in numbers even with its own fpecies; and will not be
tamed; whence it is little known, except to the few who frequent
its place of refidence. It is full as fruitful as the reft of its
race.
* Not met with either about Paris or Orleans• —■ Salerne, p. 216.
12.
CRESTED T .
Description.
Place and
Manner«.