210 BRITISH BIRDS. 



THE LONG-TAILED TITMOUSE. 



(Par us Caudatus, Linn. Mcsange a longuc queue , 

 Temm.) 



LENGTH nearly five inches and a half, of which 

 the tail itself is rather more than three inches. Its 

 bill is very short and black; eyes hazel; orbits 

 red ; top of the head white, mixed with grey : over 

 each eye there is a broad black band, which ex- 

 tends backwards, and unites on the hinder part of 

 the head, whence it passes down the back to the 

 rump, bordered on each side with dull red; the 

 cheeks, throat, and breast are white ; the belly, 

 sides, rump, and vent dull rose colour, mixed with 

 white; the coverts of the wings are black, those 

 next the body white, edged with rose colour; quills 

 dusky, with pale edges : the tail consists of feathers 

 of very unequal lengths; the four middle ones are 

 wholly black, the others white on the exterior 

 edge; legs and claws black. 



The foregoing figure was taken from one newly 

 shot. There was a preserved specimen in the Wy- 

 cliffe Museum, in which the black band through 



