248 PANURUS BIARMICUS. — /EGITHALTJS PENDULTNUS. 



[§ 992. i^o?/r.— Norfolk, June, 1873. 



Bought of a reed-cutter, lOtli June, 1873, on the occasion of Mr. Stevenson 

 taking me to see one of the Broads there and the " Reed-Pheasants " upon it. 

 There was too much wind for me to become well acquainted with them, for 

 they kept in the very thickest of the reeds, where walking was difficult, not to 

 say impossible, and could be made to shew themselves for a moment only. 

 How many there were I cannot say, but I must have had one or more under view 

 at least a score of times. We saw most of them while we stopped for luncheon in 

 a narrow channel. They did not seem to care for us, but a pair or pairs of them 

 flew several times across the ditch, sometimes a little way along it, and then 

 disappeared into the reeds. There was no making them take long flights and 

 shew themselves, and the wind was too strong to let us hear their notes well. 

 Unsatisfactory as my visit so far was, I saw and heard quite enough to assure 

 me that Paymrus is no Titmouse. The nest which contained these eggs, with 

 another of five eggs — all much incubated — had been taken by the man to his 

 cottage. I bought them, and putting the five in spirit sent them to Professor 

 Parker for his morphological researches. The nest was just like others that I 

 have seen — lined with reed-top. The man in charge of the Broad said he did 

 not perceive any difference in the number of these birds, and he had lived there 

 all his life. He might have been about sixty years of age.] 



[§ 993. >S'm'.— Norfolk, May, 1877. From Mr. Norgate. 



A complete clutch.] 



[§ 994. /S'/^r.— Norfolk, 13 May, 1884. " E. N." 



My brother's note states that having met a man by appointment on one of 

 the Broads, and " going up a drain for about one hundred yards, we landed ; 

 and he shewed me a Reed-Pheasant's nest with five young in it, more than 

 half fledged. About twenty yards further on he shewed me another nest of the 

 same species with six eggs, which seemed to be fresh, so I took them. I did 

 not, however, see the bird, but there could be no question as to the species to 

 which the eggs belonged."] 



^GITHALUS PENDULINUS (Linnreus). 

 PENDULINE TITMOUSE. 



[^ 995. T^^o.—" Hungary." From Herr Moschler, 1862.] 



[§ 996. 0/^^.— "South Russia." From Herr A. Heinke, of 

 Kamuscliin. through Dr. Albert Giinther, 1863.] 



