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iris light brown. Culmen 0'55, wing 2'91, tail 2'87, tarsus 0'82 inch ; 

 second quill equal to the 7th or sometimes longer, 4th and 5th longest. 

 Sexes alike, but the young have the brown on the upper and under parts 

 more pronounced. 



Hal. N.W. Mongolia ; Alaschan, Urga, Kobdo, and the Gobi 

 district. 



Nothing is on record respecting its habits or nidification ; 

 but it is supposed to breed in southern Siberia and in the 

 wooded mountains bordering the Gobi, such as the Alaschan 

 and Muni-ula ranges. 



PANURTJS, Koch, 1816. 



222. BEAKDED REEDLING. 

 PANURUS BIARMICUS. 



Panurus biarmicus, (Linn.) Syst. Nat. i. p. 342 (1766) ; (Naum.) iv. 

 p. 98, Taf. 96 ; (Hewitson), i. p. 161, pi. xl. fig. 3 ; (Gould), B. of 

 E. iii. pi. 158 ; (id.) B. of Gt. Brit. ii. pi. 30 ; Newton, i. p. 511 ; 

 (Dresser), iii. p. 49, pi. 102 ; Gadow, Cat. B. Br. Mus. viii. p. 77 ; 

 Saunders, p. 99 ; Lilford, ii. p. 93, pi. 43. 



Mtsange d moustaches, French ; Bigotudo, Chaliuet, Span. ; 

 Basettino, Ital. ; Bart-Rolirmeise, German ; Bardmannetje, 

 Dutch ; SJcjcegmeise, Dan. ; Usataya-sinitsa, Russ. 



$ ad. (Holland). Head clear blue-grey ; lores, a demi-eyebrow and 

 an elongated moustache black ; back rich fawn ; scapulars white tinged 

 with fulvous ; quills brown margined with white and fawn ; primary and 

 median coverts black, edged with white and fawn ; tail rusty red the 

 external feathers edged and tipped with grey ; throat and upper breast 

 greyish white, the sides of the latter delicate pink ; abdomen fulvous 

 white ; flanks fawn ; vent and under tail-coverts black ; bill and iris 

 orange-yellow ; legs black. Culmen 0'35, wing 2 '35, tail 3'3, tarsus 0*75 

 inch. The female lacks the black moustache and has the vent and under 

 tail-coverts fawn, the upper 'parts greyish fawn tinged with rufous, the 

 under parts duller than in the male, the lores and cheeks dirty white, 

 and the throat and abdomen greyish white. The young bird resembles 

 the female but has the crown and back striped with black. 



Hal. Europe as far north as southern Denmark and Great 

 Britain, south to the Mediterranean ; Asia Minor, southern 

 Russia, east to Turkestan and Mongolia, where it has been 

 obtained on the Koko-nor. In England it is now rare, except 

 on the Norfolk Broads, and resident. 



