266 BIRDS. 



brown ; upper part of the head and all beneath, white : tail longer 

 than the body. It builds its nest on the branches of small trees, and 

 roofs it over*. The 



Bearded Titmouse 



Differs from the true ones in the upper mandible of the bill, the end of 

 which is slightly bent upon the other. There is but one in France. 



Par. biarmicus, L. ; La Moustache, Enl. 618, 1 and 2; Vieill. 

 69; Naum. 96. (The Bearded Titmouse). Fawn coloured; head 

 of the male cinereous, with a black band which surrounds the eye, 

 terminating in a point behind. It builds among the thickest rushes, 

 and is found, though rarely, throughout the whole of the eastern 

 continent. 



Remiz. 



The bill more slender and pointed than that of the common Titmouse, 

 and there is generally more art displayed in the construction of its nest. 

 There is but one found in France. 



Par. pendulinus; Le Remiz; Enl. 618, 3; Vieill. 70; Naum. 

 79. Cinereous ; wings and tail brown ; a black band on the fore- 

 head, which, in the male, is continued to behind the eyes. This little 

 bird, inhabiting the south and east of Europe, is celebrated for the 

 pretty, purse-shaped nest, formed of the down from the poplar and 

 willow, and lined with feathers, which it suspends to the flexible 

 branches of aquatic trees -f-. 



Emberiza, Lin. 



The Buntings have a very distinct character in their conical, short, and 

 straight bill, the upper mandible of which is narrow, sinks into the lower, 

 and has a projecting, hard tubercle on the palate. They are granivorous, 

 and unsuspicious birds, which run into every snare that is laid for them. 



E. citrinella, L. ; Bruant commun ; Enl. 30, 1; Naum. 102, 1,2. 

 (The Yellow Bunting). Fawn-coloured back, spotted with black; 

 head, and aU the under part of the body, yellow ; the inner edge of 

 the two external quills of the taU, white. It builds in hedges, and 



* Several species of the European Titmouse are also represented in the work ot 

 M. Roux, pi. cxvii — cxxiv. Add, Parus bicolor (Catesb. I, 57); — P. cyanus (Nov. 

 Comm. Petrop. xiv, pi. xiii, fig. 1, and 23, fig. 2), and P. salbyensis (Sparm. M. 

 Carls., pi. xxv), which appear to Bechstein to be the two sexes of one and the same 

 species. VieiU. Gal. 68; Naum. 95, 6; — P. atricapillus (Briss. iii, pi. xxix, fig. 1); 

 —P.sibiricus (Enl. 70S, fig. 3), and P. palustris, B. (Enl. 502, 1), which are three 

 varieties, or verj' closely allied species; — P. atriceps, Horsf.; Col. 287, 2. 



The Parus malabaricus (Sonner. Voy. II, pi. ex, 1), and the coccineus, (Sparm. 

 Mus. Carls. 48, 49), P.furcatus, Col. 287, 1, are Saxicolas or Flycatchers, neighbours 

 to the Oranor, Vaill., or Mot. riiticilla, L., or Turdus speciosus, Lath. It may be ob- 

 served, that in every instance where the characters of a bird are not well defined, 

 it h.is been bandied about from one genus to another. 



t Parus narbonensis (Enl. 708, 1), appears to be the female of the pendulinus; 

 add, the Parus capensis, (Sonner. Voy. II. pi. cxii.), whose nest, made of cotton, and 

 shaped like a bottle, has a kind of spout on the edge of the neck for the male to 

 perch on. 



