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CALAMOPHILUS BJARMICUS. THE BEARDED 

 PINNOCK. 



BEARDED TITMOUSE. BEARDED TIT. LEAST BUTCHER-BIRD. 



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Fig. 278. 



Parus biarmicus. Liim. Syst. Nat. I. 342. 



Parus biarmicus. Lath. Ind. Orn. II. 570. 



Bearded Titmouse. Mont. Orn. Diet. 



Mesange barbue ou moustache. Temm. Man. d'Orn. I. 298. 



Bearded Titmouse. Parus biarmicus. Selb, Illustr. I. 244. 



Calamophilus biarmicus, Jen. Brit. Vert. An. 125. 



Male with the head light greyish-hliie, the general colour light 

 red ; the wings variegated with black and ichite ; mystachial 

 hands and lower tail-coverts black. Female lighter, with the 

 head merely tinged with grey, no mystachial bands, and the 

 lower tail-coverts light red. Young like the female, but with 

 the head and back black. 



Male. — This elegantly formed and delicately coloured bird 

 is somewhat less robust, and more elongated, than the Reed 

 Bunting. The head is ovate, and of moderate size ; the neck 

 short ; the body rather slender ; the feet of ordinary length ; 

 the tarsus slender, with seven anterior scutella ; the hind toe 

 stout, with six, the second with nine, the third with twelve, 



