BEABDED -TIT. 



Y BARFOG, OP THE ANCIENT BRITISH. 



BEARDED TITMOUSE. LEAST BUTCHER BIRD. BEARDED PINNOCK. 

 PINNOCK. REED PHEASANT. 



PLATE XXXVI. 



Parus barbatus, B BIS SON. 



" biarmicus, LINN^US. GMELIN. 



Calamophilus biarmicus, JENTNS. GOULD. 



NIDIFICATION commences towards the end of April; one nest, how- 

 ever, was found in 1846, that spring having been very mild, which 

 must have been built the latter end of March. 



The nest is placed among tufts of grass on the ground, and is 

 formed of dry stalks and blossoms of grass, reeds, and sedge, the 

 finer ones on the inside, and the coarser on the outside. The figure 

 is from a drawing by "W. R. Fisher, Esq., of Yarmouth. 



The eggs, which are from four to six, rarely seven in number, are 

 of a white or faint pink colour, irregularly speckled, spotted, and 

 streaked with reddish brown, with a tinge of purple. 



One variety is white, with a very few spots of dull greenish brown. 



Another is also white with several small spots of dull greenish brown, 

 and many short straight lines of the same, some of them joined 

 together in an angular form. 



