BEARDED TIT, 



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INSESSORES. 



DENTIROSTRES. 



PARID.E. 



THE BEARDED TIT. 



Partis hiarmicus. Bearded Titmouse, Penn. Brit. Zool. vol. i. p. 540. 



,, Mont. Ornith. Diet. 



„ Bewk K, Brit. Birds, vol. i. p. 293. 



„ Flem. Brit. An. p. 81. 



,, Selby, Brit. Ornith. vol. i. p. 244. 

 Calamophilus ,, ,, ,, Jenyns, Brit. Vert. p. 125. 



,, Gould, Birds of Europe, pt. iv. 

 Parus „ Misange moustache, Temm. Man. d'Ornith. vol. i. p. 298. 



Calamophilus. Generic Characters. — Beak nearly as in the genus Partis, 

 but the upper mandible at its tip is somewhat curved downwards. Wings 

 short, with the fourth feather the longest. Tail very long and graduated. 

 Legs and toes strong, particularly the hind toe and claw. 



The Bearded Tit, here figured, was also separated 

 from the genus Parus by Dr. Leach, in the " Systematic 

 Catalogue of the Specimens of the Indigenous Mammalia 



