al8 T R A V. E L S I N T O P O L A N D .
bo ok fpe agrees alfo with Buffon, in holding the bifon or wild-ox
«.—.l.p.of America to be only a variety of this urus changed by the
, climate f t
Lithuania is very rich in ornithology: among the birds of
prey the eagle and vulture are very common. J T h zRemiz\ or
little fpecies of titmoufe, called P a m s Pendulinus, is not un-
frequently found in thefe parts. T h e wondrous ftrudture of
its pendent neft induced me to give an engraving of both that
and the birds themfelves. They are of the fmalleft fpecies
of titmice. The head is of a very pale bluiih aih colour;
the forepart of the neck and the breaft tinged with red ; the
belly white; wings black; back and rump of a yellowiih
ruft colour ; quill feathers cinereous, with the exterior fides
white; the tail ruft-coloured: The male is Angularly diftinguifhed
from the . female by a pair of black-pointed
whiikers.
Its neft is in the lhape of a long purfe, which it forms
with amazing art, by interweaving down, gofs-a-mer,and
minute fibres, in a clofe and compadt manner, and then
lining the infide with down alone, fo as to make a fnug and
warm lodge for its young brood. The entrance is at the
fide, fmall and round, with its edge more ftrongly marked
than the reft of this curious fabrick : the bird, attentive to
the prefervation of its eggs or little ones from noxious animals,
fufpends it at the leifer end to the extremity of the
flender twigs of a willow, or fome other tree, over a river.
Contrary to the cuftom of titmice, it lays only four or five
eggs: poifibly Providence hath ordained this fcantinefs of
eggs to the Remiz, becaufe by the fingular inftindt imparted
* Sur le P.uflle a Qoeue ,’de cheval in j I am indebted.to that able nnturnlili,
Nov. Act. Pet. 1771. Part II. p . 232, Stc. Mr. Pennant, for this defcription of the
Alfo in bis Neue Nord. Beytrage, p. 2. Remiz, and for the annexed plate.
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