Blue Tit
or BLUE TITMOUSE, a bird, called also blue tomtit, blue cap, blue bonnet, hick mall, billy biter and ox eye. It is the parus cæruleus of Linnæus. It has the upper part of the head light blue, encircled with white; a band around the neck and the spaces before and behind the eye of a duller blue; back light, yellowish green, the lower parts pale, grayish yellow; the middle of the breast dull blue. The male is more brightly colored than the female. It builds its nest in the chink of a wall, under eaves or thatch, or in a hole of a tree, and lays from 6 to 8 eggs of a reddish color.