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GEN. 25. CALAMOPHILUS, Leach. 



79. C. biarmicus, Leach. (Bearded Titmouse.) Crown 

 and occiput bluish ash ; throat white ; beneath the eye a 

 black pointed moustache. 



Parus biarmicus, Temm. Man. d'Orn. torn. i. p. 298. Bearded 

 Titmouse, Mont. Orn. Diet. Selb. Illust. vol. i. p. 244. pi. 51. f. 6. 

 Bew. Brit. Birds, vol. i. p. 283. 



DIMENS. Entire length six inches four lines : length of the bill (from 

 the forehead) three lines and a half, (from the gape) five lines ; of the 

 tarsus nine lines and a half; of the tail three inches one line; from the 

 carpus to the end of the wing two inches three lines. 



DESCRIPT. (Male.) Head and occiput bluish gray: between the bill 

 and the eye a tuft of loose pendent black feathers, forming a pointed 

 moustache on each side of the face; throat and fore part of the neck 

 white ; breast and belly tinged with rose-red : nape, back, and rump, light 

 rufous orange ; scapulars paler : quills dusky, the primaries edged with 

 white ; greater coverts deep black, edged with red on the outer webs, and 

 with reddish white on the inner : under tail-coverts deep black : tail long 

 and cuneated, orange-brown; the outer feathers tipped, and edged ex- 

 ternally, with grayish white : bill orange : irides yellow : feet black. 

 (Female.) No black moustache on the sides of the neck ; crown, and 

 upper parts of the body, yellowish brown, spotted with dusky: under 

 tail-coverts of the same colour with the abdomen. (Egg.) White, with 

 a few minute specks and streaks of dark red : long. diam. eight lines 

 and a half; trans, 'diam. six lines and a half. 



A local species confined to fenny districts, and extensive marshes, 

 where there is abundance of reeds. Found near Winchelsea in Sussex, 

 between Erith and London, and also in some parts of Gloucestershire, 

 Lancashire, Cambridgeshire, and Norfolk. Nest placed near the ground, 

 fixed to the stems of coarse grasses ; composed entirely of dried bents, 

 the finer ones forming the lining. Eggs four to six in number. Said 

 to feed on land mollusca, especially the Succinea amphibia, as well as 

 insects. 



GEN. 26. BOMBYCILLA, Briss. 



80. B. garrula, Bonap. (Bohemian Wax-Wing.) Head 

 and upper part of the body purplish red ; the feathers on 

 the crown elongated ; throat black : secondaries and greater 

 coverts tipped with white. 



Bombycivora garrula, Temm. Man. d'Orn. torn. i. p. 124. Bohemian 

 Wax-Wing, Selb. Illust. vol. i. p. 268. pi. 34*. Bohemian Chatterer, 

 Mont. Orn. Diet. Chatterer, Bew. Brit. Birds, vol. i. p. 98. 



DIMENS. Entire length seven inches eleven lines. 



DESCRIPT. Crown-feathers elongated, forming a pendent crest, of a 

 pale brown purplish red colour: nostrils covered with small black feathers: 

 throat and region of the eyes deep black : all the upper and under parts 

 of the body purplish red, with a tinge of ash-gray, being darkest above : 

 greater wing-coverts black, tipped with white : quills black ; some of the 



