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INSESSOXES. 



DENTIROSTRES. 



PARID.E. 



PARIDJZ. 



THE BEARDED TIT. 



Calamophilus biarmicus. 



Parus biarmicus, Bearded Titmouse, PENN. Brit. Zool. vol. i. p. 540. 



MONTAGU, Ornith. Diet. 



BEWICK, 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. 



Parus Mesange moustache, TEHM. Man. d'Ornith.vol.i. p. 298. 



CALAMOPHILUS. Generic Characters. Beak nearly as in the genus 

 Parus, 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 Cata- 

 logue of the Specimens of the Indigenous Mammalia and 

 Birds in the British Museum, already referred to, and 



