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$Title{Genus I.--Parus, Linn.  Tit}
$Subject{Parinae; Parus; Tit}
$Journal{Birds of America:  Volume II}
$Volume{Vol. 2:142}
$Family{Parinae}
$Genus{Parus}
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$Common_Name{Tit}
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                       B I R D S   O F   A M E R I C A .

                    By John James Audubon, F. R. SS. L. & E.

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                                   VOL.  II.
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                           GENUS I.--PARUS, Linn.  TIT.


     Bill short, stout; upper mandible with the dorsal line slightly decurved
toward the end, the edges overlapping, with a slight lobe or festoon near the
base, destitute of notch, rather acute; lower mandible with the dorsal outline
slightly convex, the edges direct, the tip rather acute.  Nostrils roundish
covered by bristly feathers.  Head rather large, roundish; neck short.  Feet
proportionally large; tarsus of moderate length; hind toe very large and strong,
the two lateral nearly equal, the outer adherent at the base; claws large, much
compressed, very acute.  Wings of moderate length, convex.  Tail long, or of
moderate length, rounded or graduated, of twelve rather narrow feathers.