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Title: A history of the birds of Europe, not observed in the British Isles
Year: 1862 (1860s)
Authors: Bree, Charles Robert, 1811-1886
Subjects: Birds Birds
Publisher: London, Groombridge and Sons
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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Siberia and EasternRussia. «. The adult male has the top of the head, a largepatch on the nape, the cheeks, throat, and all theinferior parts snowy white, the top of the head being-shaded with azure blue, and there is a patch of thesame in the middle of the abdomen. From the beakthrough the eyes to the nape is a band of very darkblue, which, passing round the head, enlarges at thenape, returns and forms a triangular patch on the sideof the neck; back, rump, and above the wings, azureblue; greater wing coverts dark blue, the border beingclearer, and terminating in white; middle tail quillsazure blue, the laterals bordered and terminated withwhite. The tail long and cuneiform; feet and tarsiazure blue. The female has the top of the head grey white; allthe blue colours less pure, and the blue band whichpasses through the eyes is smaller in the nape. Figured by Temminck and Laugier; Pallas, Nov.Comm. Acad. Peterop, pi. 23, fig. 3; Naumann, VogelDeutsch., vol. iv, pi. 95; Gould, pi. 153.
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11 M B T I T. 13 GRANIVOPwE. Family PA11IDJE. (Bonaparte.) Genus Parus. (Linnaeus.) PENDULINE TIT. Parus pendulinus. Parus pendulinus, Linnjeus. Temminck et Attct. narbonensis, (jun.,) Gmelin. Latham. JEgithalus pendulinus, Vigobs. Bonapaete. Keysebling and Blasius. Mesange Remiz, La Penduline, La Mesange de Languedoc, Of the Fbench. Gemeine beutelmeise, Of the Geemans. Specific Characters.—Vertex and throat white; forehead black,edged with ochreous; cheeks black; back rich deep russet. Lengthfour inches and one-fifth; carpus to tip two inches and one-tenth;beak from gape two-fifths of an inch; tarsus three-fifths of an inch;tail two inches. The Penduline Tit is an inhabitant of Poland, Italy,Russia, Hungary, the Crimea, and France. It is alsofound in some parts of Germany. Degland says he hasreceived the nests and eggs from the neighbourhood ofPezenas; that it is found in Provence only during itsmigration, and accidentally in Lorraine and in the de-partment of the Seine-Inferieure.

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