294 AVES. 



Bearded Titmouse 



Differs from the true ones in the upper mandible of the beak, 

 the end of which is slightly bent upon the other. There is but one 

 in France. 



Par. biarmicus, L.; La Moustache; Enl. 618, 1 and 2; Vieill. 

 69; Naum. 96. (The Bearded Titmouse.) Fawn coloured; 

 head of the male cinereous, with a black band which surrounds 

 the eye, terminating in a point behind. It builds among rushes, 

 and is found, though rarely, throughout the whole of the eastern 

 continent. 



Remiz. 



The beak more slender and pointed than that of the comnion 

 Titmouse, and there is generally more art displayed in the construc- 

 tion of its nest. There is but one found in France. 



Par. pendulinus; Le Remiz; Enl. 618, 3; Vieill. 70; Naum. 

 79. Cinereous; wings and tail brown; a black band on the fore- 

 head, which, in the male, is continued to behind the eyes. 

 This little bird, inhabiting the south and east of Europe, is 

 celebrated for the pretty, purse-shaped nest, formed of the 

 down from the poplar and willow, and lined with feathers, 

 which it suspends to the flexile branches of aquatic trees.(l) 



EmberizAj Lin. 



The Buntings have a very distinct character in their conical, short 

 and straight beak, the upper mandible of which is narrow, sinks 

 into the lower, and has a projecting, hard tubercle on the palate. 

 They are granivorous, and unsuspicious birds, which run into every 

 snare that is laid for them. 



E. citrinella, L. ; Bniant comrnun', Enl. 30, 1; Naum. 102, 1, 

 2. (The Yellow Bunting.) Fawn coloured back, spotted with 

 black; head and all the under part of the body yellow; the 

 inner edge of the two external quills of the tail, white. It 

 builds in hedges, and approaches our dwellings in winter, in 

 numberless flocks, along with the Finches, 8cc. 



E. cia, L.; Bruant fou; Enl. 30, 2; Naum. 104, 1, 2. (The 

 Foolish Bunting.) Differs from the preceding, in being reddish- 



(l) Parus narbonerms (Enl. 708, 1) appears to be the female of the pendulinus; 

 add, the Parus capensis, (Sonner. Voy. II, pi. cxii,) whose nest, made of cotton 

 and shaped like a bottle, has a kind of spout on the edge of the neck, for the male 

 to perch on. 



