BEARDED TITMOUSE. 

 (Partis biarmicus.) 



PA. rufus vertice cano, capite larbato, crisso nigro, cauda corpore 



longiore. 

 Rufous Titmouse, with a hoary crown, head bearded, and vent 



black ; tail longer than the body. 

 Parus biarmicus. Lin. Syst. Nat. 1. 342. 12. Lin. Faun. Suec. 



84. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 101 1. Lath. Lid. Orn. 2. 5/0. 23. 

 Parus barbatus. Briss. 3. 567 ' 12. 

 La Mesange barbue, ou la Moustache. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 5. 



518. 18,Bii/. PI. Enl. 618. f. 1.2. 

 Least Butcher Bird. Edwards. 55. 

 Bearded Titmouse. Pen. Brit. Zool. 1.167. Pen. -drct. Zool. 



1. 428. H. Albin. Birds. 1. 48. Lath. Gen. St/n.4. 552. 20. 



Lath. Syn. Sup. ipo. Bewick. Brit. Birds. 1. 246. Mont. 



Brit. Birds. I. Mont. Sup. Don. Brit. Birds. 1. t.l. Leivin. 



Brit. Birds. 3. t. 122. 



THIS elegant bird is about six inches and a 

 quarter in length, of which the tail makes one 

 half: the beak is near half an inch long, of an 

 orange colour, which changes after death to a dingy 

 yellow : irides yellow : head pale ash-colour : be- 

 neath the eye is a tuft of loose black feathers, 

 ending in a point downwards : hind part of the 

 neck and back light rufous orange : scapulars 

 whitish : quills dusky ; the inner webs of the pri- 

 maries white ; the edges of the secondaries and 

 the greater coverts the same colour as the back : 

 throat white : breast cinereous flesh-colour ; belly, 

 sides, and thighs, like the back, but paler : vent and 



