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throat and breast, the centre of the cheek 

 feathers being marked with blackish gray. 

 Above each eye a broad stripe of black, which 

 meets on the occiput, and runs down the centre 

 of the back, forming the mantle. Most of the 

 back and scapulars rose red, centre of the 

 feathers sometimes streaked with black, rump 

 and upper tail coverts black. Wings black, the 

 secondaries deeply edged with white. Tail 

 black, three outer feathers, with the tips and 

 outer webs, black. Belly and vent ash gray, 

 tinted with rose red, particularly on the flanks 

 and under tail coverts. 



A specimen in our possession, killed near Edin- 

 burgh, has the crown and under parts white, but 

 all the other parts of the plumage black, tinged 

 only on the scapulars with rose red. 



THE BEARDED TITMOUSE, CALAMOPHILUS 

 BI ARM ic us, Leach. Calamophilus biarmicus, 

 Leach. Cat, of British Museum. Jen. Parus 

 biarmicus, Linn. Le Mesange barbue ou mous- 

 tache, Buff. Temm. Bearded Titmouse of British 

 authors. This form appears to us to be still more 

 aberrant than that of the Long-tailed Titmouse, 

 and we are by no means satisfied that it should 

 not rank as a sub-genus ofparus. By Dr Leach 

 it was separated under the title of Calamophilus, 

 and by a modern writer it has received the 

 name of Laniellus. It varies certainly as much 

 from the pari as the aquatic warblers do from 

 the Willow Wrens or Curruca ; and if two or 



