. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. 1. PARUS. i I. Nostrils ovate, with a large operculum, the nasal opening situated pos- teriorly; hidden by small plumes. Tongue horny, obtuse, divided at the end, ter- minating in a few horny bristles. One genus Panurus *, p. 77. 1. PARUS. Type. Parus, Linn. Si/st. Nat. i. p. 341 (1766) P. major. Lophophanes, Kaup, Nat'drl. Syst. p. 92 (1829) P. cristatus. Cyanistes, id. op. cit. p. 99 P. cyaneus. Poecile, id. op. cit. ^^.Wi P. ater. Melanochlora, Lesson, Rev. Zool. p. 42 (1839) P. sultaneus. Crataionyx, Ei/ton, P. Z. S. 1839, p. 104 P
. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. 1. PARUS. i I. Nostrils ovate, with a large operculum, the nasal opening situated pos- teriorly; hidden by small plumes. Tongue horny, obtuse, divided at the end, ter- minating in a few horny bristles. One genus Panurus *, p. 77. 1. PARUS. Type. Parus, Linn. Si/st. Nat. i. p. 341 (1766) P. major. Lophophanes, Kaup, Nat'drl. Syst. p. 92 (1829) P. cristatus. Cyanistes, id. op. cit. p. 99 P. cyaneus. Poecile, id. op. cit. ^^.Wi P. ater. Melanochlora, Lesson, Rev. Zool. p. 42 (1839) P. sultaneus. Crataionyx, Ei/ton, P. Z. S. 1839, p. 104 P. sultaneus. Ptilobaphus, Reichenh. Nat. Sijst. pi. Ixii. (1850) P. sultaneus. Penthestes, Reichenb. I. c P. niger. Machlolophus, Cah. Mas. Hein. i. p. 91 (1850) P. spilonotus. Baeolophus, id. I. cit. (note) P. bicolor. Pentheres, id. op. cit. p. 92 P. niger. Melaniparus (!), Bp. Cmsp. Av. i. p. 228 (1850) P. sultaneus. Poekilis, Blasius, Lid of B. of Eur. p. 8 (1862) P. Head of Parus major, with bill to show nostrils (exposed). Bill short, subulate, more or less conical, blunt at the tip, hardly notched, or without any notch at all; nostrils always round and small, hidden, like the base of the bill, by recumbent little feathers of the forehead, never operculated, the margins being ossified ; first primary well developed, but less than half the next one in length; tip of wing formed by 3rd to 5th primaries; tail varying in length and shape ; tarsus comparatively short, less than double the length of the hallux, anteriorly covered with many transverse scales, which in some species, in old birds, tend to fuse into one another ; many species have a feather-crest. Plumage often beautifully coloured, the principal colours being black, yellow, and blue, whilst green and red are excluded ; back and wings frequently spotted, but streaks and cross markings do not occur. Most of the North- American species are plain and dull in colour ; African Tits prin- cipally black. Eanije. Ab
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